Okay, I’ve decided to start to make a proper entry to dive right into stuff I plan to work on. Anyway, yesterday I managed to find some rather interesting stuff in my local pharmacy while picking up my pills… firstly a 3-in-1 camera which can be used as a camcorder, camera or webcam, and also a robotic bubble nblower and robotic shark. I’ve always had an interest in AI & Robotics, so I figured as they were going cheap, I’d pick them up. I have another robot thingy I picked up in the charity shop, along with a 10-in-1 Electronics thingy. And yes, I know they’re for kids, but when you think about it, they’re all a great way to get started with electronics as they have all the bits you need, and also instructions as well! Anyway, my plans are to essentially build all these robots, then show pictures of them when complete, although I may actually use the video camera to record them. Granted it’s a somewhat cheapish camera, but it’s a good thing to get started with till I can afford a larger camera. What does worry me though is that the “High Res” (480×368) and Low Res” (320×240) have little between them, yet the picture taking maximum is 640×480!
Anyway, expect videos from my assembling the stuff when I get an SD Card.
Tags: Electronics, Gadgets, Geekery, Projects, Robotics
hmmm…robotics eh? Lets’ hope it works out better than the radio station eh Harry? lol
btw…i like the site. ^_^
The radio station is still going on, this is my personal talkspace and rantspace
The difference between the resolution is because the picture is a single frame, and the video is multi-framed, using more memory, therefore the lower resolution makes it smaller. I think.
What I meant was that the higher resolution for filming isn’t drastically different from the lower resolution.
Well, if you do the math, it’s a 50% increase from Low to High. It’s pretty high in terms of difference. More pixels, more info. Unless you’ve taken the exact same video at both of the different resolutions for a direct comparison.
Also the text indicating each of these fields is too bloody small. I had to zoom in just to see what was showing up.
I dunno how to adjust the text size at the moment, but I’ll see if I can.