Wednesday, June 24, 2015
RC Hobby - Blade Nano QX Indoor Flight
A very short indoor flight video of a Blade Nano QX quadcopter from Horizon Hobby (You may check http://www.horizonhobby.com for some information.)
Sunday, June 14, 2015
New Video Idea - My Time Travelling RC Buggy
The first scene in this video shows me holding my HSP RC buggy with an attached SJ4000 camera. I am alone in a vacant lot where I will perform a scientific experiment. I already have setup my camera and tripod to record this historic event. The plan is to send the RC buggy one week ahead in the future where (or when ) my older self will wait for it in the same spot that it will disappear.
After the toy disappears and goes to the future, my younger self will go home and go back exactly one week later to retrieve it, check it and watch the video that the attached camera recorded from the time that it disappeared to the moment that it appeared again in the vacant lot. Unlike in the Back to the Future movie, there is no way for the toy to go back where or more exactly, when it came from. The 2.4 Ghz radio transmitter and receiver will probably "disassociate" from each other and I would therefore need to be back on time a week later to ensure that I can restore the link immediately. If the toy crashes on something or someone, I will be there to apologize and perhaps pay for the damages that this time travel experiment might cause.
Of course, this is just a video. I do not have the means, resources and the skill to build a time machine. This is just an interesting way to express my thoughts and imagination. I also show the uncertainties involved and the potential dangers that time travelers will have to face. There is no way for them to know precisely where they would land or appear in the future. The exact spot where they would appear could be life-threatening in the future.
A possible solution is to invent a device that can see the past and future just like in the movie Deja Vu and Time Lapse. Before actually going to the past or future, a time traveler will need to check the situation first by using such a device. This will ensure that his travel will not be dangerous by canceling,postponing or rescheduling it if the future situation is not safe.
I will still have to create the actual video for this script.
After the toy disappears and goes to the future, my younger self will go home and go back exactly one week later to retrieve it, check it and watch the video that the attached camera recorded from the time that it disappeared to the moment that it appeared again in the vacant lot. Unlike in the Back to the Future movie, there is no way for the toy to go back where or more exactly, when it came from. The 2.4 Ghz radio transmitter and receiver will probably "disassociate" from each other and I would therefore need to be back on time a week later to ensure that I can restore the link immediately. If the toy crashes on something or someone, I will be there to apologize and perhaps pay for the damages that this time travel experiment might cause.
Of course, this is just a video. I do not have the means, resources and the skill to build a time machine. This is just an interesting way to express my thoughts and imagination. I also show the uncertainties involved and the potential dangers that time travelers will have to face. There is no way for them to know precisely where they would land or appear in the future. The exact spot where they would appear could be life-threatening in the future.
A possible solution is to invent a device that can see the past and future just like in the movie Deja Vu and Time Lapse. Before actually going to the past or future, a time traveler will need to check the situation first by using such a device. This will ensure that his travel will not be dangerous by canceling,postponing or rescheduling it if the future situation is not safe.
I will still have to create the actual video for this script.
3D Spray Bottles
I placed these 3D spray bottles from Element 3D into this video with the use of Adobe After Effects.Compare the original video to see the difference.
A Strange-looking Car
This one of my practice videos. As you can see, the video still needs some improvement,the 3D object used (the car in this case) is "shaky". I need to perfect camera tracking and also color correction/matching.
A Damaged Robot
I placed this 3D robot into a video using After Effects,Element 3D and a trick called "camera tracking". The 3D object used was downloaded from http://tf3dm.com and is the Quad Bot 3D model that was submitted by ysup12 three years ago.
Tuesday, June 2, 2015
My 3D Head - My Head in "Digital Form"
A "digital version" of my head created with the use of a software called FaceGen.
One Color at a Time
What would it be like if we can view our world "one color at a time"? I used the "color accent" feature of a Canon SX50 camera to create this video.
Monday, June 1, 2015
Blurred Background Effect
A small collection of videos that have a blurred background effect or as they call it "bokeh".
Ideally, the out-of-focus portion of a picture or video is produced when a wide open lens is used.
The wider the aperture or the lower the f-number is, the shallower the depth of field becomes. This causes the blurred background effect.
(I used a Nikon D5000 camera and a 50mm prime lens for this video)
A DIY Wireless IP Camera
This is a demo video of my DIY wireless IP camera using a Raspberry Pi. The components used for this project are a Raspberry Pi, a camera module, a small power bank, a USB Wifi adapter (plus the casing and some rubber bands).
To activate the camera, I used a software called PuTTY to connect to the Raspberry Pi's IP address. After a successful logon, I used a script to start a process that would listen to incoming connections using port 9000. I then used VLC to connect to the camera and view the video.
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