ShutterDeck - 2017
shutterdeck.com and its products are out of production. I have hardware and software available for special events. Contact me if you have questions. Otherwise this page is only for portfolio purposes.
About
ShutterDeck was a hardware device I designed and developed in 2016/2017 to allow granular control of large camera arrays, typically for use with “bullet time” photo booths, controlled either remotely with an iPhone app (a React Native app that connected to the ESP8266 over HTTP running a simple web server) or via serial over USB. Low-cost ESP8266 SOCs. Each unit supported 13 cameras, and multiple devices could be chained together to support any number of cameras. I designed the PCB and used Seeed Studio for production. Other offshore partners created my input jack components and enclosures. In Toronto in 2018 at the Canadian Country Music Awards we ran 24 cameras in a 360 degree photo booth. Other events such as the Time 100 gala used more like 8 cameras.
I had been working on a complete turnkey solution that included instant video/gif processing but the demand was never truly there. Among other things I was looking to incorporate solutions using photogrammetry. Directly below you can see an example of where I used Google AutoML to detect objects in the images that I could then use to align on the the fly:
Above I used Google AutoML tools to help stabilize the images for video production. It worked well!
Above is a video from the 360 “glam cam” at the 2018 Canadian Country Music Awards
Above is a time lapse video of the setup at the 2018 Canadian Country Music Awards
Walking around the 360 degree photo booth
Hardware iterations
The earliest version used relays controlled by an Arduinos and did not support discrete control of each camera.
A slightly more robust version inside of a pencil case was better for travel and allowed for individual control of each camera.
PCBs that I designed and worked with Seeed Studio to manufacture.
The final enclosures. They were big, but cheap. I was working on designing everything into a much smaller package.
Testing out the daisy-chained PCBs above.
