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Cooling e2v EV76C661 sensor 25 Aug 2013 | 07:56 pm
I reviewed IDS Imaging UI-1240ML-NIR-GL camera equipped with EV76C661 sensor. When using high gain and longer exposures around 30 ms for Saturn dimmer channels the noise - hot pixels were quite appare...
Review of IDS Imaging UI-1240ML-NIR-GL camera 19 Aug 2013 | 03:50 am
IDS Imaging UI-1240ML-NIR-GL is a camera that I use from some time now. It's equipped with one of newest CMOS sensors - e2v EV76C661. In the past I tested cameras with the previous generation of e2v C...
Schiefspiegler - a tilted mirror telescope with no obstruction 18 Aug 2013 | 11:33 pm
Schiefspiegler is probably the most popular of tilted telescope designs (TCT). It consists of two mirrors but the secondary is moved aside so that it doesn't shadow the primary mirror. Both mirrors ar...
Combining RFID, NFC and QRCodes with django-oscar online shop 6 Aug 2013 | 02:40 am
You can write a lot of tutorials about making web apps. So to make something different lets talk about using some hardware and combine it with a shop. I'll show how to use RFID, NFC and QRCodes with a...
Using Arduino sensor boards with pyMCU 2 Aug 2013 | 11:46 pm
There is a lot of boards that can be used with Arduino. There always will be something new to test and use. In this article I'll present three boards working with pyMCU - buzzer, ultrasonic distance s...
Simple site traffic statistics with django-basic-stats 31 Jul 2013 | 04:30 am
django-basic-stats is my basic site traffic statistics application. It can be used to watch latest referrers, Google search terms that led to finding you site or for logging and analyzing mobile devic...
Testing xiQ cameras with big mono CMV4000 CMOSIS sensors for solar imaging 8 Jul 2013 | 03:08 am
Big sensors were missing in Solar System photography. Big diagonal allows fitting more Moon or Sun on the sensor. That makes imaging easier and quicker. Not so long ago CMOSIS announced big 1" mono se...
Celestron launches Skyris planetary cameras with TIS help 2 Jul 2013 | 11:02 pm
Celestron and TIS announced that they are launching a set of Skyris planetary cameras. Those are fast USB3 based cameras with ICX618, ICX445 and ICX274 Sony CCD sensors. Those Celestron cameras are ba...
Debugging Python code in a browser with wdb debugger 1 Jul 2013 | 03:23 am
wdb is a nice Python debugger running as a server and capable of launching debug session in your browser. It can handle simple scripts, web apps (Tornado, Flask or Django based and alike) as well as o...
Controlling USB missile launchers from Python 30 Jun 2013 | 09:08 pm
Office gadgets and toys are quite interesting and useful to those spending long hours in work. From time to time everyone wants to have a little bit of fun. In this article I'll take Dream Cheeky USB ...
