A Shot in the Dark!
summary
Points out exact claim and methods: pointing a camera at a screen to control inputs, discovering the preset is not continuous exposure but staggered captures with delays under 33 milliseconds and pixels only fully appearing around 200 milliseconds, using pico 8 to generate test frames, finding an Olympus camera with an open API over HTTP, building a fake server and an echo listener after tracing a TCP port with Wireshark, parsing simple XML notifications, and ending with a short working program that remotely triggers and retrieves photos.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Reverse engineering camera
- 1:01Live composite mode discovery
- 3:16Controlled lighting experiments
- 4:44Open-source Olympus API
- 6:13First manual photo
- 7:37Automating camera issues
- 8:40Debugging with Wireshark
- 9:44Camera commands and notifications
- 10:26Fixing remote control
- 11:08Transferring photos
- 11:50Simple camera control app
- 12:10Project lessons
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