<div dir="ltr">As a matter of fact Cliff, dad and I were recently discussing implementing a similar idea on Snoopy. Specifically, a camera that would cover the lower aft section of the sub for a real-time view of the thruster / reverse camera.<div><br></div><div>I'll be interested to see what your experience comes to be. ~ Douglas S. </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 1:24 PM, Antoine Delafargue via Personal_Submersibles <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org" target="_blank">personal_submersibles@psubs.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi Scott, <div>the sub is coming along... after it got exhibited at the Paris boat show, I got is closer to home to avoid long week end drives and do all the outfitting work. </div><div>Our one week long dive is planned 6-12 of August, but we still need to finish assembly and testing. </div><div><br></div><div>I put most news on facebook</div><div><a href="https://www.facebook.com/Projet-Poisson-Pilote-Pilot-Fish-Project-294329844027226/" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/Projet-Poisson-Pilote-Pilot-Fish-Project-294329844027226/</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>regards</div><div>Antoine</div></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 7:02 PM, <a href="mailto:swaters@waters-ks.com" target="_blank">swaters@waters-ks.com</a> via Personal_Submersibles <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org" target="_blank">personal_submersibles@psubs.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>
<div>Antoine,</div><div>How is Pilot Fish comming? I haven't heard for a while?</div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Scott Waters</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div style="font-size:85%;color:#575757">Sent from my U.S. Cellular® Smartphone</div></div><div><div><br><br>-------- Original message --------<br>From: Antoine Delafargue via Personal_Submersibles <<a href="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org" target="_blank">personal_submersibles@psubs.org</a>> <br>Date: 01/16/2016 11:05 AM (GMT-06:00) <br>To: Personal Submersibles General Discussion <<a href="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org" target="_blank">personal_submersibles@psubs.org</a>> <br>Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Virtual Viewports <br><br><div dir="ltr">HI Cliff, <div>for Pilot Fish, we ll have the same configuration as on your R300, although the hatch is tilted nearly 10° forward to improve visibility. </div><div>We are building a camera in the nose pointing downwards in a transparent acrylic casing.</div><div>and plan to relay it to a portable screen inside the sub. </div><div>We ll see how it renders...</div><div><br></div><div>regards</div><div>Antoine</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 4:46 PM, Jon Wallace via Personal_Submersibles <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org" target="_blank">personal_submersibles@psubs.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
USB HD webcams are pretty cheap and can easily be put into a homebuilt housing. I am planning on using them with a small 12inch notebook for video capture. You can use multicam software like ISPY to combine multiple cameras into one viewing area. The only problem I've found is that I can't get more than three cameras to work with any computer I've tried. IP Cameras are another option but are more expensive and larger so require a bigger footprint on the sub. And of course if the housing fails it will hurt your pocket book more to purchase another IP cam. The advantage though is that most of them have built in IR lights for night vision.<br>
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If you want something more basic, check out Raspberry PI with Processing Language for building a graphical display. You can feed a camera to it to display on a small touchscreen. I've tried it and it works very well.<br>
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On 1/16/2016 10:34 AM, Cliff Redus via Personal_Submersibles wrote:<br>
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With the sitting position of the pilot in the R300 and the hemispherical viewport, visibility upwards all around is excellent but visibility off to the port and starboard sides of the boat when looking down is poor. I am interested in what experience we have collectively on using subsea cameras and displaying monitor as virtual viewports. Has any one commissioned one of these cameras? What brand and model did you use and what HMI or monitor did you use? Has it worked? What has worked well and what whould do differently on your next boat?<br>
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I know from emails a few years back that Carsten was planning on using this concept rather than a physical viewport. I would be interested in anyone's experience on this.<br>
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