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Something useful (Patreon)

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2022-12-05 10:31:22
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I made something I'll actually use!  This one is early for Patrons and goes out publicly next Tuesday 13th Dec.

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Do you think static camera shots are boring, with the camera sat still on a tripod? Well, some YouTubers have camera operators, which makes the footage look super fun, and they can interact with the YouTuber too. William Osman has a camera operator called Cameraman John. But who exactly is Cameraman John? I’d love to make my footage look super fun too, so today I’m going to build an AI-driven robot camera operator that can do lots of fun things, just like Cameraman John. I'm using deep learning model on running on a Jetson Nano to track where I am in the shot and move a pan-tilt-zoom camera gimbal. There are also some other special features. You can support me on Patreon, join my Discord, or buy my Merchandise: *************************** Discord: https://discord.com/invite/fc6MedG7eW Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/xrobots Merchandise: https://teespring.com/stores/james-bruton *************************** Other socials: *************************** Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/xrobotsuk Twitter: https://twitter.com/xrobotsuk Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/xrobotsuk/ *************************** Affiliate links - I will get some money of you use them to sign up or buy something: *************************** 10% off at https://www.3dfuel.com/ - use code XROBOTS at the cart screen. Music for your YouTube videos: http://share.epidemicsound.com/xrobots *************************** CAD and Code for my projects: https://github.com/XRobots Huge thanks to my Patrons, without whom my standard of living would drastically decline. Like, inside out-Farm Foods bag decline. Plus a very special shoutout to Lulzbot, Inc who keep me in LulzBot 3D printers and support me via Patreon. HARDWARE/SOFTWARE Below you can also find a lot of the typical tools, equipment and supplies used in my projects: Filament from: https://www.3dfuel.com/ Lulzbot 3D Printers: http://bit.ly/2Sj6nil Bearings from: https://simplybearings.co.uk/ Lincoln Electric Welder: https://bit.ly/2Rqhqos CNC Router: https://bit.ly/2QdsNjt Ryobi Tools: http://bit.ly/2RhArcD Axminster Micro Lathe: http://bit.ly/2Sj6eeN 3D Printer Filament: http://bit.ly/2PdcdUu Soldering Iron: http://bit.ly/2DrNWDR Vectric CNC Software: http://bit.ly/2zxpZqv

Comments

Adam Purdie

This is so cool :) I also like hat jokes.

Steve Coleman-Williams

Awesome build! Still think transitions are a little slow TBH but you'll get a feel for those and tune them when actually making videos I am sure! One thing that might be kool, if pan out of range of the servo, rotate whole thing and then have servo catch up. Have you managed to test outside yet? namely on the car park you often use for bigger pieces (voice controlled kart for example). Those wheels dont look like theyd cope too well with tarmac/concrete

Adam Purdie
>>96951130

Yeah it works really well, it was really cool how it zooms out to keep all of you in field :D

Steve Martin

Excellent! Only one issue I noted was that when you put your arms out to widen the shot it quickly reverts, so I guess wide shots need to be foot pedal driven?

Anonymous

That’s really good 👍🏻

XRobots
>>96951478

I'm not I'll take it outside in it's current form, it probably doesn't actually need the wheels in most cases. A drone might be better for some of those shots..

XRobots
>>96952248

It depends what it's filming, I can always set up the 'look away' pedal shot to be a wide shot if I need to.

Anonymous

Super cool tool for your future videos! One thing I wasn't clear about, when you push the pedal for the look away pedal shot, does it go where you point, or do you have to pre-program the shot? If it's pre-programmed, could you put in a series of quick pan shots. So, for example, click the pedal, zoom to Elmo, then click again to zoom to robot dog, click for Iron Man portrait, click to reset to bookmark.

XRobots
>>96955267

Those are pre programmed, at the moment using the pots on the front panel. I was considering a better control console which has multiple preset positions and multiple ways to trigger them. Programming a motion control sequence would be quite possible.

Anonymous

Have you tried connecting the Arduino to the Jetson directly using the USB port rather than Rx/Tx? You might be able to skip the USB to serial connection.

XRobots
>>96959179

Yes that would work, but then you lose the debug function USB serial on the Arduino - unless you use another Arduino serial port for that.

Neil Devonshire

Very cool. I like the smooth motion and the fact you have bookmarks and transverse movements. Could you mirror the camera output monitor in front of the lens, so you are naturally looking through the lens while looking at the output? Same as an Autocue

XRobots
>>96976433

I could set up a teleprompter I guess, but I should probably just not look at the screen - I guess I was checking it was working while I was testing.

Thomas Messerschmidt

Did you say that this project was to become a kickstarter? Or am I imagining it?

Faraz Sayed

That's really neat! It would be amazing if you could teach it gestures to focus on particular things, like point to an object and it zooms in. Maybe you'd have to point with two fingers to give it more information like such as a bounded section to zoom to. You may then have another gesture like a wave to get it back to automatic mode. There's lots of possibilities when you have a clever AI working on a rig like this.

Al Pieroway

This is going to take some getting used to, but I look forward to it. :) Nicely done!

XRobots
>>97846264

I won't be using it excessively, and I also want to build a V2 with an arm on.