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...
PiCapture: The Hardware Setup

PiCapture: The Hardware Setup

In order to develop the hardware for the motion capture system, I’ll need to purchase more specialised sensors needed to capture the motion data. There’s no other way around this, these sensors are tailored for this kind of use case and there are no viable...