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Watch 16 Video Cameras from a Windows 98 Window |
| Complete details were published in the May 2000 issue of Nuts & Volts Magazine. Order back issues from www.nutsvolts.com. This article will not be posted on this web site until later this year. |
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Watch 16 Video Cameras from a Windows 98 Window!!! |
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Control the Position of 256 Different Video Cameras using the Pan and Tilt Sliders!!! |
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Use 2 Hobby Servos to Position a Small CCD Camera. |
| FREE SOFTWARE WITH SOURCE CODE FOR VISUAL BASIC 6 PROFESSIONAL!!!! FOLLOW THESE SIMPLE STEPS: |
| Step 1 | Install Visual Basic 6 Professional or Enterprise Edition. If you don't have it, you can usually buy it from www.ebay.com at a VERY economical price. |
| Step 2 | Make sure your have a video capture card installed in your computer such as the STB TV-PCI TV-Tuner card, or the ATI All in Wonder PRO AGP or PCI. Make sure you only have one video capture card installed. Make sure the video card is working. |
| Step 3 | Download, install, and register the ActiVideo control. This software allows Visual Basic to talk directly to your video capture card for grabbing images. Click here to download the ActiVideo control module. For details on this module, please visit www.activevideotools.com. |
| Step 4 | Download and unzip the MultiMonitor program source code. THE .EXE VERSION WILL NOT BE MADE AVAILABLE, SOURCE CODE ONLY, RUNS UNDER VB6. |
| Step 5 | Purchase an ASELPRO Video Switcher from our company. Click Here for Ordering Information. |
| Step 6 | Purchase a few SCAM Chips from our company if you want to position your video cameras. Click Here for Ordering Information. |
| Step 7 | Purchase Hobby Servos from www.towerhobbies.com, part number LXJB61. Center the servos and use hot glue to mount the video cameras to the servos as shown in the picture above. The CCD Camera can be purchased from www.digikey.com, part number P9506-ND. |
| Step 8 | Make sure COM1 and COM3 are available on your system. If you are an experienced VB user, you can change the COM ports by changing the COM PORT property of the MSComm Controls (telephone icons on the main form). |
| Step 9 | Connect COM1 to the ASEL Video Switcher. See the ASEL manual for details. |
| Step 10 | Connect COM3 to the SCAM Chips for camera positioning. Download our data sheets for complete wiring details. |
| Step 11 | Connect up to 16 video cameras to the ASEL Video Switcher. See the ASEL manual for details. |
| Step 12 | Connect Video Output A on the ASEL to the video input of the video capture card. |
| Step 13 | Connect Video Output B on the ASEL to the video input of any available monitor or VCR. |
| Step 14 | Run the MultiMonitor program from Visual Basic 6, double-click on MultiMonitor.vbp program to load, click the "play" button on the tool bar to run. If you get any errors, then you might make sure your system is properly configured to use COM1 and COM3. |
