{"id":332,"date":"2016-06-07T17:54:45","date_gmt":"2016-06-07T15:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kurokesu.com\/main\/?p=332"},"modified":"2016-09-01T20:33:19","modified_gmt":"2016-09-01T18:33:19","slug":"brief-open-sourced-motorized-zoom-lens-introduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kurokesu.com\/main\/2016\/06\/07\/brief-open-sourced-motorized-zoom-lens-introduction\/","title":{"rendered":"Brief open-sourced motorized zoom lens introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kurokesu.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_5249_r-800x600.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-338 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kurokesu.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_5249_r-800x600-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_5249_r-800x600\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kurokesu.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_5249_r-800x600-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kurokesu.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_5249_r-800x600-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.kurokesu.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_5249_r-800x600.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>While working on some computer vision projects I have been missing feature to control zoom \/ focus remotely. And I am not the one with problem like this. So introducing motorized zoom\/focus lens with USB controller. While lens is manufactured by third party vendor, I had to make compact USB controller by myself.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Software is open-sourced under GPL license and <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/Kurokesu\/motorized_zoom_lens\">initial version is already uploaded to github<\/a>. Board software for simplicity written on Arduino platform (Atmega328). PC testing software is written in Python (theoretically all platforms Windows\/OSX\/Linux are supported).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For now couple of quick videos illustrate what can be expected. Can be used with any CS-mount lens including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurokesu.com\/shop\/CAMUSB1\">C1<\/a> (which is used in this video) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurokesu.com\/shop\/KITC920\">reworked Logitech C920<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qqULx-mhv6U?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CsVZl6bo17Y?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While working on some computer vision projects I have been missing feature to control zoom \/ focus remotely. And I am not the one with problem like this. So introducing motorized zoom\/focus lens with USB controller. While lens is manufactured by third party vendor, I had to make compact USB controller by myself. 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