Final Project: Fab-360

360 photography in a FAB way (compatible with any Device having "Good" Camera)

Objectives:

This is one the project which i always wanted to work on for better precision with less devices and which can be used with any of the basic devices which one have.

So as shown in images below, there is going to a stand on which you can mount any of your camera devices and which works on 3- degree of freedom. which can be rotated as any other camera stand can but here the rotation will be automatic.

We have to work on timing to take the images and angles involved, devices used, image compositions, rendering,etc.

With the help of this stand one can create high resolution 360 degree image of any space with less human efforts and with greater accuracy.

Anyone can get clean perfect 360 images with the help of this stand either a 10 year child or a granny who loves to click picture.

I am going to use simple technology in this device but i have to work a lot on timing of image taking and with different camera technologies.

Starting at week-2

Competitors

As you can see in the image, none of the device is below 350 USD.

This is a very good idea to make something very cheap and accurate.

Starting with Design

Hardware was needed to be rotated in any of the plane and it needed two stepper motors for this kind of rotation.

Components needed

Fab-360 can be made in less than 40 USD(Price may vary with different currency, but will not exceed 40 USD).v

3D Printed Parts

1. Motor and electronics housing

2. Camera rotation and mounting

3. Mobile holding clamps

CNC milled Part

4. Base- motor housing

This Part is made of wood as it needs to take all the weight of hardware and the mobile.

It also houses a stepper motor which rotates everything in horizontal 360 direction.

It was made in shopbot CNC machine.

Image shows path, geometry and settings for machining.

I made two same parts to save time incase of failure of one.

Laser cut parts

5. MDF support for Mobile phone

This one part done on epilog laser mini.

I needed more density for this part as this part is more in length and there were chances of bending of the part if it is not solid or 3d printed.

3d printed part takes lot time for printing and laser cut part takes only two minutes.

It saves a lot time, electricity, Material.

It has guides to support holding clamps from two sides therefore you can use use different mobile phones and they can be clamped according to their different sizes

Ready Components

All the needed components

Assembly

How  to assemble all the components  to complete the hardware

Logic After coding

I need all the angles, frame of references, number of photographs to be taken in the position, etc.

We started with taking 360 photographs with mobile. I have some friends who are currently working on virtual reality.

Prahar, Richa and Rudra helped me out with angles and all other things i needed.

Taking reference images for finding angles

In Above section we took all the vertical angles with the same reference window and then measured all the angles in vertical frame. Then took number of images in the horizontal frame with which we can make a good 360 image without much patching of images. We used google camera which give auto-patching option and which takes all the images automatically without human efforts.

Here you can see team helping me out with virtual reality part.

Angles for vertical motion

zero is the mean straight line... mobile will stay straight in this position... 3rd line in vertical is zero angle.

0         3rd line

+43      2nd line

+69.5   1st line

-36.5     4th line

-72.5     5th line

for horizontal motion.

vertical        angle        number of pictures

line                                to be taken

1st line           90             -4 times

2nd line          36          - 10 times

3rd line           27.69      - 13 times

4th line           36          -10 times

5th line           90          - 4 times

Above stated is the angles for coding

First the camera will take angles in the

3rd line

then 2nd line

then 1st line

then 4th line

then 5th line

when you are using nexus phones  you can use this codes, but when you are using a different mobile phone first

• first download google camera
• start 360 camera.
• take 360 image with hands and measure time delay between taking the photograph
• edit the time delay in the code from the files while uploading.

Electronics

Components needed for stepper motor driver:

• attiny44
• 1 micro Faraday capacitor
• 1 10K resistor
• 2 6-pin headers
• 1 4-pin header
• 5 5V regulator

Assembly:

you can watch this video for assembling all the components

Code for horizontal stepper:

#include <Stepper.h>  //Library for Stepper motors

#define STEPS 100 //no. of steps

//define an instance of Stepper class with the pin nos. and no. of steps

Stepper stepper(STEPS, 8, 9, 10, 11);

void setup()

{

  stepper.setSpeed(30); //setting speed of the motor in RPMs

  // For line 3

  for (int i = 0; i < 13; ++i)

  {

    stepper.step(15);

    delay(1500);

  }

  delay(2650);

  //For line 2

  for (int i = 0; i < 10; ++i)

  {

    stepper.step(20);

    delay(1500);

  }

  delay(2650);

  //For line 1

  for (int i = 0; i < 4; ++i)

  {

    stepper.step(50);

    delay(1500);

  }

  delay(7000);

  //For line 4

  for (int i = 0; i < 10; ++i)

  {

    stepper.step(20);

    delay(1500);

  }

  delay(2650);

  //For line 5

  for (int i = 0; i < 4; ++i)

  {

    stepper.step(50);

    delay(1500);

  }

}

void loop()

{

}

Code for Vertical stepper:

#include <Stepper.h>  //Library for Stepper motors

#define STEPS 100 //no. of steps

//define an instance of Stepper class with the pin nos. and no. of steps

Stepper stepper(STEPS, 8, 9, 10, 11);

void setup()

{

  stepper.setSpeed(30); // setting speed of the motor in RPMs

  delay(33000);

  stepper.step(24); //moving 43.2 degrees

  delay(28000);

  stepper.step(15); //moving an additional 27 degrees

  delay(15000);

  stepper.step(-39); //returning to the origin

  stepper.step(-24); //moving 43.2 degrees in the negative direction

  delay(28000);

  stepper.step(-15); //moving additional 27 degrees in the negative direction

  delay(15000);

  stepper.step(39); //returning to the origin

}

void loop()

{

}

when you are using nexus phones  you can use this codes, but when you are using a different mobile phone first

• first download google camera
• start 360 camera.
• take 360 image with hands and measure time delay between taking the photograph
• edit the time delay in the code from the files while uploading.

3D Printing Files:

holder plastic parts

housing for stepper motor bigger one

mobile holder rotation

second motor housing -2nd part

CNC milling files:

base part  profile for  CNC Milling fab-360

Pocket file for CNC milling fab-360.sbp

Profile cut shopbot file for CNC milling fab-360

Laser cutting files:

MDF Laser cutting for fab-360

Codes:

Horizontal direction motion Stepper

Vertical direction motion Stepper