Painting Walls with Lasers

What it does

A camera-attachment that emits a moving-laser to draw patterns.

open_camera_shutter()
draw_with_laser(coordinates)
close_camera_shutter()

Dark night photography like

Topic	Details
Hardware	3D-Printing & programming gimbal for laser
Camera Interface	Developing API for our NIKON dslr
Input Processing	Converting input into coordinates for laser

Edge-detection with python image processing libraries for complex images.
Designed a library for communication between DSLR camera and RPi/Linux system using python which enables it to be in-sync with the laser.

Rutvik Sheth
CAD & 3D printing, Serial communication between Arduino and PC, reading and writing to SD card, interpreting our custom control language, driving motors and laser.

Liam Smolenaars
A Python script that performs file IO and serial data transfer.

After generating laser-code, it digitally simulates the laser-path with Turtle API for verification.

The code can then be sent to the laser-mechanism, which draws the image.

Benjamin Li