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Hi, I'm T. Emrich, the developer of the GigaPanBot
The PanoBot was the first automated head. The current motorized head is called GigaPanBot and you should find all information om my website.
Feel free to contact me if you have any questions.

Regards ET

Hi AlexandreJ,
thank you.
I was considering and already started to save the head position of the head to a SD card and directly create a template to be used by the software to align the images. Currently I'm using PTGui, but looking forward to the new announced features of APP, I see some great advantages with APP related to gigapixel images.
So yes, for the future I plan to save the position (yaw, pitch and roll) of each single picture to an SD card.
Right now I move by row (left to right or right to left) with the option to always return to the beginning of the row or just go back and forth.
I can also choose if I want to start from nadir or zenith.
Bur for the next version I plan to be more flexible and also move by column.
The next will be to optimize the number of pictures for spherical panoramas.
Depending on the pitch I will optimize the number of pictures per row, so this will reduce the number of pictures needed to take a spherical high resolution panorama. So this means the software needs to be flexible to allow different numbers of pictures per row.
Looking forward to see the new version soon ;-)

Regards ET

Hi Frédéric,
no this is not possible.
All the software needed to control the device is flashed into the controller, so I don't need any additional hardware.
Of course I can use my controller too to control different motors or gears. As you can see on my web page this is a modular approach and I use one controller for different purpose.

If you are refering to a RS-232C serial interface, then this is not a good choice.  It would be better to use an USB interface which is standardized, faster, and more flexible (tree configuration).  You are able to buy inexpensive USB hardware modules that you can interface with your controller.

i will go and buy bluechips

convertertime 2.0 has begun

;-)
Paul

@ AlexandreJ,
what file format or structure of the log file will APP expect?
Please let me know so I can prepare to code the function.
Is APP able to read the PTGui template?
Regards ET

Actually, we are supporting a lot of input format and because unfortunately there is no standard format for a panohead log file.
So, knowing a lot of them, I would suggest to use the papywizard format which is easy to understand and extensible if needed because it's xml.

Here's an extract of the papywizard output.
2 parts :
- header => stores the settings of the shooting, for the moment, we don't use it fully
- shoot => image and  location ( you could have more than one entry for the same position when you do bracketing ).

<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<papywizard>
    <header>
        <focal>
            17.0
        </focal>
        <fisheye>
            False
        </fisheye>
        <sensorCoef>
            1.6
        </sensorCoef>
        <sensorRatio>
            3:2
        </sensorRatio>
        <cameraOrientation>
            portrait
        </cameraOrientation>
        <nbPicts>
            3
        </nbPicts>
        <realYawOverlap>
            0.29
        </realYawOverlap>
        <realPitchOverlap>
            0.47
        </realPitchOverlap>
        <template pitch="2" type="mosaic" yaw="2"/>
    </header>
    <shoot>
        <image id="1" pict="1">
            <time>
                Sun Jan 13 11:48:49 2008
            </time>
            <yaw>
                -3.2
            </yaw>
            <pitch>
                -3.7
            </pitch>
        </image>
        <image id="2" pict="2">
            <time>
                Sun Jan 13 11:48:49 2008
            </time>
            <yaw>
                -3.2
            </yaw>
            <pitch>
                -3.7
            </pitch>
        </image>
         ...
         ...
    </shoot>
</papywizard>

mediavets wrote:

pepoloe wrote:

Hi, I'm T. Emrich, the developer of the GigaPanBot
The PanoBot was the first automated head. The current motorized head is called GigaPanBot and you should find all information om my website.
Feel free to contact me if you have any questions.

Regards ET

GigaPanBot looks very interesting. Do you plan to produce these for sale?

A member of the Panoguide forum reports that Mr Emrich tells him that the component and material costs alone for the GigaPanBot are in the region of Euros 1,000 and that Mr Emrich plans only to make a few for friends.