Guppy, a very small lightweight industrial FireWire camera

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Very small, lightweight industrial FireWire camera – inexpensive The Guppy is a very small, lightweight, inexpensive industrial FireWire camera. Guppy cameras are equipped with a large variety of renowned CCD and CMOS sensors by Sony and Micron/Aptina – the versatile Guppy series provides the right camera for almost all kinds of applications. IEEE 1394a (400 Mb/s) CCD and CMOS sensors (1/3,… Read more →

Interaction Lab at Rockwell Group » Venice Biennale

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We developed custom software using Openframeworks, an open development environment for C++. It uses 6 Mac Pro Computers, Mac Mini for Sound, 2 Mantis MG video servers, Media Matrix Digital Signal processor, 6 firewire AVT Guppy IR cameras, and custom IR filtered lighting. In the projection each point is given an initial x,y and z coordinates and wanders within a… Read more →

US drug agency gets intel from NSA, then lies about its origins to build cases | Ars Technica

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On Monday, Reuters reported on previously undisclosed documents showing that a secret Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) unit uses information collected by intelligence agencies—including the National Security Agency (NSA)—to build evidence for criminal cases. The true origin of this information is usually concealed from defense lawyers—and sometimes even prosecutors and judges—to seemingly do an end-run around the normal court procedures for… Read more →