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A project log for Auto tracking camera

A camera that tracks a person & counts reps using *AI*.

lion-mclionheadlion mclionhead 01/27/2023 at 20:530 Comments

Stacking the LCD & electronicals side by side started gaining favor.  The mane reason is it's always going to be on the floor.  The electronicals would give it a pedestal.  The problem is transporting it.

The thinnest possible LCD thickness results in a gigantic base with the battery on top of the HDMI.  There's also a speaker which needs to go in the base.

A compromise thickness has the jetson, speaker, & battery on the bottom.  The HDMI & buck converters go behind the LCD.  The trick is the jetson has to be upside down for the ports to be accessible.  The total bottom extension would be the width of the battery or 50mm.  This might be the most efficient layout.

The imac to this day still has a large space under the screen even though it has no battery & it's razor thin.  

The imac doesn't get any love anymore.  There are few reviews & teardowns.  Anyone wanting that level of computing power is using a macbook air.  It's going the way of the ipod, but it represents a cheap way of integrating a display & confuser.

The jetson going all out is going to suck 1A at 12V.  The monitor is going to suck another 1.5A.  It'll last maybe 90 minutes at full frame rate.  $1000 gaming laptops seem to be hitting 60 minutes.  The lion kingdom's 5 year old one had a reduced frame rate on battery power & was prone to overheating.  Another one from 2004 was the same.  The internet isn't going to say if the newest ones are any better.

Verified the HDMI board has an amplified speaker output & it's quite loud.  This is used by the rep counter.

A lion can model 1 module per day at most. The mane problem is splitting it up into pieces that fit on the printer.  The webcam is right where it would ideally be split.  That top edge should be split into 3 sections.  

The split for the bottom section should be next to the LCD rather than the bottom of the LCD.

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