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Title: Cool site counter - mechanical!
Post by: delanvital on August 25, 2006, 09:37:31 AM

http://www.embeddedether.net/mhc.html#

Title: Cool site counter - mechanical!
Post by: Anonymous on August 25, 2006, 09:42:56 AM

A fantastic bit of over-engineering :clap:

Title: Cool site counter - mechanical!
Post by: delanvital on August 25, 2006, 09:45:44 AM

Quote from: BlueBall;145741A fantastic bit of over-engineering :clap:

I couldn't get the web cam to work. Could you?

Title: Cool site counter - mechanical!
Post by: Anonymous on August 25, 2006, 09:54:00 AM

Quote from: delanvital;145745I couldn't get the web cam to work. Could you?

No, I guess its the work firewall

Title: Cool site counter - mechanical!
Post by: Bob on August 25, 2006, 02:35:24 PM

I couldn't get the web cam to work either, and I'm only behind my own firewall (which (I believe :unsure:) I have full controll over)... <_<

But really cool set up for that counter - would be fun to make one of those 8)

Title: Cool site counter - mechanical!
Post by: Bastet on August 25, 2006, 02:55:53 PM

Option 2, the webcam is messing up on thier end.

Title: Cool site counter - mechanical!
Post by: Cadaver on August 25, 2006, 03:06:30 PM

Quote from: Bastet;145848Option 2, the webcam is messing up on thier end.

Maybe the chap's decided to take things a step further and over-engineer his webcam. I'm guessing the resulting solution hasn't been optimised yet.

Let me see: a web-actuated solenoid that depress the shutter of a polaroid camera aimed at the mechanical counter, a conveyer belt transfer of the resulting frame (allowing developing time of course) to a flat-bed scanner, before scanning and publishing to the web. That sound convoluted enough?

And yes, I'm bored again today...

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