[PSUBS-MAILIST] Virtual Viewports

Sat Jan 16 14:27:32 EST 2016

As a matter of fact Cliff, dad and I were recently discussing implementing
a similar idea on Snoopy. Specifically, a camera that would cover the lower
aft section of the sub for a real-time view of the thruster / reverse
camera.

I'll be interested to see what your experience comes to be. ~ Douglas S.

On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 1:24 PM, Antoine Delafargue via
Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles at psubs.org> wrote:

> Hi Scott,
> the sub is coming along... after it got exhibited at the Paris boat show,
> I got is closer to home to avoid long week end drives and do all the
> outfitting work.
> Our one week long dive is planned 6-12 of August, but we still need to
> finish assembly and testing.
>
> I put most news on facebook
>
> https://www.facebook.com/Projet-Poisson-Pilote-Pilot-Fish-Project-294329844027226/
>
> regards
> Antoine
>
> On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 7:02 PM, swaters at waters-ks.com via
> Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles at psubs.org> wrote:
>
>> Antoine,
>> How is Pilot Fish comming? I haven't heard for a while?
>> Thanks,
>> Scott Waters
>>
>>
>>
>> Sent from my U.S. Cellular® Smartphone
>>
>>
>> -------- Original message --------
>> From: Antoine Delafargue via Personal_Submersibles <
>> personal_submersibles at psubs.org>
>> Date: 01/16/2016 11:05 AM (GMT-06:00)
>> To: Personal Submersibles General Discussion <
>> personal_submersibles at psubs.org>
>> Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Virtual Viewports
>>
>> HI Cliff,
>> for Pilot Fish, we ll have the same configuration as on your R300,
>> although the hatch is tilted nearly 10° forward to improve visibility.
>> We are building a camera in the nose pointing downwards in a transparent
>> acrylic casing.
>> and plan to relay it to a portable screen inside the sub.
>> We ll see how it renders...
>>
>> regards
>> Antoine
>>
>> On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 4:46 PM, Jon Wallace via Personal_Submersibles <
>> personal_submersibles at psubs.org> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> USB HD webcams are pretty cheap and can easily be put into a homebuilt
>>> housing.  I am planning on using them with a small 12inch notebook for
>>> video capture.  You can use multicam software like ISPY to combine multiple
>>> cameras into one viewing area.  The only problem I've found is that I can't
>>> get more than three cameras to work with any computer I've tried.  IP
>>> Cameras are another option but are more expensive and larger so require a
>>> bigger footprint on the sub.  And of course if the housing fails it will
>>> hurt your pocket book more to purchase another IP cam. The advantage though
>>> is that most of them have built in IR lights for night vision.
>>>
>>> If you want something more basic, check out Raspberry PI with Processing
>>> Language for building a graphical display.  You can feed a camera to it to
>>> display on a small touchscreen.  I've tried it and it works very well.
>>>
>>> Jon
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 1/16/2016 10:34 AM, Cliff Redus via Personal_Submersibles wrote:
>>>
>>>> With the sitting position of the pilot in the R300 and the
>>>> hemispherical viewport, visibility upwards all around is excellent but
>>>> visibility off to the port and starboard sides of the boat when looking
>>>> down is poor.  I am interested in what experience we have collectively on
>>>> using subsea cameras and displaying monitor as virtual viewports.  Has any
>>>> one commissioned one of these cameras?  What brand and model did you use
>>>> and what HMI or monitor did you use?  Has it worked? What has worked well
>>>> and what whould do differently on your next boat?
>>>>
>>>>  I know from emails a few years back that Carsten was planning on using
>>>> this concept rather than a physical viewport.  I would be interested in
>>>> anyone's experience on this.
>>>>
>>>> cliff
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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