Initial Hardware Design
In my role as Hardware Tech Advisor, I have been developing open hardware to support the research being funded through this Experiment.com project. The goal is to create an optical stereoscope that adds depth-sensing to stock wildlife camera traps.
The hardware design is being shared during all stages of development, and can be built by those who want to follow along. Keep in mind though that the design is still in development and may change rapidly, and certain iterations may not work as intended. With that warning out of the way, links are provided below for the source materials and documentation required to build the current version.
Multiple copies of this stereoscope have already been built by myself, Western University, and soon by Pen. The current design takes decent stereo images with my Victure HC200 camera trap, but some modifications are being made, such as adding apertures to the camera adapting shim to "hardware crop" the stereo images. This will (hopefully) make them easier to process. There are also some issues to work out to make sure that the mirrors fit properly even when the base is 3D printed with varying dimensional accuracy.
I am sure that more modifications will be made once the design is put to use for wildlife image capture and processing, and I look forward to that collaboration. I plan to post updates here periodically so that anyone who is interested in the hardware development can follow along.
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