Near IR has been covered in earlier posts and I wanted to expand on the topic after seeing it represented in false color. I happened upon Mathieu Stern’s work a couple of weeks after my last post, which he posted just over three weeks earlier. The commercial grade work employed a yellow filter inserted in a modified high end camera that had its Near IR filter removed by Kolari Vision. This second video expanded on the topic. The filter manufacturer…
My early near IR lens mods for the 808-16 were physical changes that were not repeatable with the ESP32-Cam in this post, https://www.cloudacm.com/?p=3986. I concluded that purpose-built lenses were better suited. Since this was the case, I opted to order a NOIR filtered lens for my RunCam2 4K camera. This would give me more “ready to use” features than coding another project for the ESP32-Cam. The lens I found online was for a CCTV camera with the following specs, 5MP…
Brian Lough created a video on YouTube titled “WiFiManager – An Essential ESP32 library!” This video pointed out that hard coded settings on the ESP32 can be a limitation. It went on to demonstrate this with wireless network connectivity and the inherent dependency when preset values are used. The solution rested on a library that gives the ESP32 the ability to operate as a WiFi access point and for the ESP32 to provide a web portal for an attached device….