PiCapture: Designing the Desktop App Foundation

PiCapture: Designing the Desktop App Foundation

To partner the motion capture system we need to develop a high quality software application that will be easy to expand with new features over time. As a Mac user with a little experience using Apple’s Swift programming language and user interface capabilities,...
PiCapture: Designing the Prototype Hub

PiCapture: Designing the Prototype Hub

Due to its proximity to the wearer’s body, we need to keep the hub’s profile as slim as possible. The result will hopefully be a clear plastic enclosure roughly the size and thickness of a pack of playing cards. A similar sized power bank will power the...
PiCapture: Building the Proof of Concept

PiCapture: Building the Proof of Concept

After some rummaging around on the web followed by a gruelling struggle to get the Raspberry Pi Zero to allow code editing and execution over USB I finally managed to set up the Pi to act as my MoCap system’s hub. The Pi Zero is a full-blown computer and not set...