This project is to design a low cost 360 camera for monitoring plant growth. We could combine multiple camera modules and work on designing a rig for these. The system could then be used to record data with settings controlled with the touchscreen. This could be a cool project with the popularity of such systems. An alternative, which may be of more interest to monitoring plant growth, could be to build a set-up which takes a full 360 panorama image around an object. Here rather than 360 out from a point, we’d be looking at imaging in on something from all angles.
Organisation: I’m a 1st year PhD student in the Department of Plant Sciences here at the University of Cambridge. I’m in the Forest Ecology and Conservation Group (Coomes Group). I’m working on developing methods to use UAVs to monitor tropical rain forests. The focus of my research is about developing low cost methods for such efforts, and making these widely available. I did a Bachelor’s here in Maths before completing my Master’s here too in Systems Biology. As such I have some pretty solid skills with working across disciplines and with coding.
What would you like to learn? I would love to learn more about physical computing, and generally working with the Arduino. I’ve worked with Raspberry Pis before (myself owning quite a few) but would like to move to microcontrollers. Getting to play around with physical crafting (maybe even CAD and 3D printing if we have time) would be really cool too.
What can you teach? I can teach people a fair bit about image processing and the principles of this. I also have a fairly strong background in maths, computation, but also systems (including synthetic) biology.
This project is to design a low cost 360 camera for monitoring plant growth. We could combine multiple camera modules and work on designing a rig for these. The system could then be used to record data with settings controlled with the touchscreen. This could be a cool project with the popularity of such systems. An alternative, which may be of more interest to monitoring plant growth, could be to build a set-up which takes a full 360 panorama image around an object. Here rather than 360 out from a point, we’d be looking at imaging in on something from all angles.
Contact: Jonathan Williams (jvw28)
Organisation: I’m a 1st year PhD student in the Department of Plant Sciences here at the University of Cambridge. I’m in the Forest Ecology and Conservation Group (Coomes Group). I’m working on developing methods to use UAVs to monitor tropical rain forests. The focus of my research is about developing low cost methods for such efforts, and making these widely available. I did a Bachelor’s here in Maths before completing my Master’s here too in Systems Biology. As such I have some pretty solid skills with working across disciplines and with coding.
What would you like to learn? I would love to learn more about physical computing, and generally working with the Arduino. I’ve worked with Raspberry Pis before (myself owning quite a few) but would like to move to microcontrollers. Getting to play around with physical crafting (maybe even CAD and 3D printing if we have time) would be really cool too.
What can you teach? I can teach people a fair bit about image processing and the principles of this. I also have a fairly strong background in maths, computation, but also systems (including synthetic) biology.