Hacking Photography - one Picture at a time
Dec 19, 2022 by John Aldred Leave a Comment Caster For Bed
James Bruton is one of the biggest names in robotics on YouTube. He’s made all kinds of crazy contraptions and robots that work on a seemingly endless number of mechanical and physics principles – not to mention a lot of electronics wizardry. In this video, he takes a look at the one problem that plagues YouTubers shooting videos on their own. Eliminating boring static camera shots.
So, he made a robot with a camera to move and follow the subject. Given James’ history, though, he doesn’t just stick a camera on a gimbal and use the app to track a subject like most of us might. Oh no, he builds one with a full AI vision system that’s on wheels. It can literally follow you around. It doesn’t just turn to look towards you from a fixed position. Is it overkill? Absolutely. Is it really freaking cool, though? You bet!
The 15-minute video goes quite in-depth into how the device works and does its thing. James’ shooting space is a little small for him to let it go wandering around while filming him all the time, but the amount of “smarts” he’s programmed into it is extremely impressive. It’s running an AI deep-learning model on a Jetson Nano in order to track where he is in the shot. It moves a pan-tilt-zoom camera gimbal (of his own design) and has a three-wheeled Omni wheel setup at its base.
This is a project that I think I’m just going to admire from afar and won’t be attempting to build myself – at least, not unless I find myself one day having a large studio space to let it run free in. But if you want to have a go at building one, James has put all of the cad and code available to download on GitHub.
Filed Under: DIY Tagged With: AI, gimbal, James Bruton, Jetson Nano, Subject tracking
John Aldred is based in Scotland and photographs people in the wild and animals in the studio. You can find out more about John on his website and follow his adventures on YouTube.
John Aldred is based in Scotland and photographs people in the wild and animals in the studio. You can find out more about John on his website and follow his adventures on YouTube.
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