21 cm Detector: Day 7 -May 28

We made some progress today and were able to take a picture outside! You can now at least tell what is seen outside. We still have to play around with the settings because it is not completely clear, but hopefully we can figure that out soon. Now our next task is to set up a feed to a website so that every time the webcam takes a picture, people can see them just by looking online.

Although we were able to get the picture outside, the raspberry pi is still not recognizing the usb camera properly. We can only get it to take a picture if we type the line fswebcam -p YUYV test.jpeg. If the camera was properly being recognized then we would not need the -p YUYV in the code. We are also trying to get the camera to stream a video and detect motion. We found a few websites that will allow us to do this hopefully with relative ease. But for a lot of these codes to work, we have to ensure the camera is recognized properly.

 We also got all the parts to finish the 21 cm detector so that we can test it at Union on Monday to see if it works! This is a picture to show all the parts put together.