May 20, 2006
Whiteboard->Flickr Capture System
Together with Brian Lee, I've been building a new high-res (but low-speed) whiteboard capture system for the 12'x8' whiteboard wall in our iRoom. We've mounted a Canon Pro1 still camera under the ceiling. We get 8 megapixel shots of the whiteboard that we automatically correct for perspective and auto-post to the HCI group flickr photostream. Here is a sample image. Next step is to find a giant red button that we can mount to the wall that will start the whole process...
On the tech side, we are using Canon's SDK to control the camera and Python scripts to correct perspective (with the Python Imaging Library and upload to Flickr (with Beej's Python Flickr API).
Posted by Bjoern Hartmann at May 20, 2006 4:43 AM