Fiddling Around


I broke my mirror (and I'm not superstitious), so I have been testing at half the screen size and it's making me frustrated because it is reducing the clarity of my blobs while increasing their size. Zooming and cropping with my camera sucks. I can't wait for a Dragonfly Express or a Firefly MV from Point Grey Research. Having a smaller screen is not always a good thing. I might as well be testing on an iPhone or an iPod Touch.

Did you click on the Dragonfly link? 200fps at 640x480!!! That kicks ass! If I had problems tracking moving blobs, then this solution would fix it in 1/200th of a second. Simply awesome. Plus, it looks like Jeff Han is using a Dragonfly in this photo from the 2006 TED conference.

It's really out of my budget, so I have been looking for some contract jobs to make up the difference. *sigh* It's so painful to resume manual labor after a very long break. Not that I'm physically strained, but doing other people's coding is manual labor to me. Maybe I'll just make a Facebook plugin and retire.