ORIENTATION aware camera

[Andrew Magill] just added his orientation aware camera to the Hack a Day Flickr Pool. It uses a 3-axis magnetometer and 3-axis accelerometer. He didn’t want to spend too much effort on the USB side so he picked up USBMicro’s U421. It’s a fairly well documented preprogrammed microcontroller for USB. He later regretted this; his final sample rate was only 5Hz because of all the overhead. using the positional data the, webcam image can be corrected for any sort of shaking. [Andrew] took this one step additionally by using OpenGL and stitching all of the video frames together live into a full panorama. Be sure to watch his excellent video demo embedded below.