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Ask HN: How could I improve on my fun project?

8 pointsby nagyfover 4 years ago
Hi,<p>I created a project for learning purposes and having fun. I have a Raspberry Pi with a camera, looking out my apartment window. It takes a picture every minute, and uploads it to a server. Every day I concat those images to create a time-lapse video, like this: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hn-share-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com&#x2F;example.mp4<p>The whole thing is automatized, it has been running in the past 3-4 months without problems, I have around 90 videos now and tons of images.<p>Now I&#x27;m looking for ideas what could I do with these images&#x2F;videos? Do you have any fun project idea?

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bayindirhover 4 years ago
Some ideas from top of my head:<p><pre><code> - Add a clock overlay. - Add actual temperature overlay - Bonus points for using an on-board sensor. - Add a wind overlay. - Bonus points for using an on-board sensor. - Identify any passing object (e.g.: plane, helicopter), detect it. - If there are no planes, run a general purpose object detector and see what it detects. - If you detect any thing of interest, take more photos for some periods to create a slow-mo effect. - Wild idea: Try to somehow track the progress of the building. Mark the previous day&#x27;s height on the video. - Wild idea: If the camera allows for fast bursts, take three shots when light is good and merge to HDR video. - Try to post-process images to improve noise, colors, contrast and dynamic range.</code></pre>
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LarryMade2over 4 years ago
Check out the movie Koyaanisqatsi they have a lot of similar time lapse segmentsa with interesting subjects, angles, lighting, as well as scored to music. It might give you some inspiration.