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Today:. Gateway To Space ASEN / ASTR 2500 Class #06. T-53. Colorado Space Grant Consortium. Today:. Announcements One Minute Reports Catch up and in class team time HOBO – if you want to walk through steps presented last week. Announcements:.
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Gateway To Space ASEN / ASTR 2500 Class #06 T-53 Colorado Space Grant Consortium
Today: • Announcements • One Minute Reports • Catch up and in class team time • HOBO – if you want to walk through steps presented last week
Announcements: • Proposals are due Thursday at 7:00 AM via email • CoDR presentations are due Thursday at 7:00 AM via email • Each team will have 5 minutes for presentation and 2 minutes for questions from Chris • Please follow the template • Passwords
One Minute Reports: • Live
Cameras ASEN / ASTR 2500 Colorado Space Grant Consortium
Canon A570 IS Mods: • The following instructions will walk you through the steps needed to change the firmware on this camera to take picture every 20 seconds
Canon A570 IS Mods: • The CHDK code was originally written by Rick von Glahn from Edge of Space Sciences (EOSS) • These steps are performed with the camera modified to turn on and off with a external switch • The steps to modify the hardware of the camera are contained in a different presentation • 2GB can hold ~ 566 pictures
Canon A570 IS Mods: • This mod uses CHDK to add autonomy to a digital camera without the use of a timing circuit or further modifications to the camera • CHDK is firmware enhancement • It only works with Canon digital cameras • Please see the following website for much more information http://chdk.wikia.com/wiki/CHDK
Canon A570 IS Mods: • http://chdk.wikia.com/wiki/CHDK
Canon A570 IS Mods: • Take your camera out of the box
Canon A570 IS Mods: • Insert the batteries
Canon A570 IS Mods: - Turn on camera by touching two wires together
Canon A570 IS Mods: - Set the date and time - Power off the camera by touching the two wires together again
Canon A570 IS Mods: 2. • Insert SD card and close battery cover • (not all SD cards support this mod) 1. 3. 4. 5.
Canon A570 IS Mods: • Set Camera to “AV” mode
Canon A570 IS Mods: • Turn on camera by touching two wires together
Canon A570 IS Mods: • Press the “MENU” button and format the card – Use the “Low Level Format” setting 1. 2.
Canon A570 IS Mods: • Press the “MENU” button and format the card – Use the “Low Level Format” setting 3. 4.
Canon A570 IS Mods: • Press the “MENU” button and format the card – Use the “Low Level Format” setting 5. 6.
Canon A570 IS Mods: • Power off camera and remove the SD Card 1. 2.
Canon A570 IS Mods: • Connect the SD card to your computer 1. 2.
Canon A570 IS Mods: • The files we are going to copy to the SD card contain a script (macro) that will take pictures about every 20 seconds after an initial boot up.
Canon A570 IS Mods: • Open the “cu_gateway_fall_2009.bas” file 1.
Canon A570 IS Mods: • Open the “cu_gateway_fall_2009.bas” file 2. 3.
Canon A570 IS Mods: • Open the “cu_gateway_fall_2009.bas” file 4. 5.
Canon A570 IS Mods: • Open the “cu_gateway_fall_2009.bas” file 6.
Canon A570 IS Mods: • Save the “cu_gateway_fall_2009.bas” file
Canon A570 IS Mods: • Copy the CHDK folder structure and files to the SD card
Canon A570 IS Mods: • Switch the play/record button on the camera to “play”
Canon A570 IS Mods: • Insert SD card and power the camera on. 1. 2. 3.
Canon A570 IS Mods: • Press the “MENU” button and press the left on the circle button until the “play” symbol is highlighted 1. 3. 2.
Canon A570 IS Mods: • Press up on the circle button and highlight “Firm Update” 1. 2.
Canon A570 IS Mods: • Select “OK” and press “SET” 1. 2.
Canon A570 IS Mods: • Camera should now be running the CHDK firmware. • May be default script or Gateway script.
Canon A570 IS Mods: • Press the shutter button to stop the script but leave the camera on
Canon A570 IS Mods: • Switch the play/record button on the camera to “record”
Canon A570 IS Mods: • You should see “Default Script” and “<ALT>” in the bottom of the screen
Canon A570 IS Mods: • With “<ALT>” showing, press the “MENU” button
Canon A570 IS Mods: • - “<ALT>” will be replaced by “<CNF>”
Canon A570 IS Mods: • - Use the control pad to move the cursor down to "Debug parameters" and click "SET" to select this option.
Canon A570 IS Mods: • Move the cursor down to "Make card bootable...“ • Press "SET" to select this option then select back and press “SET” again
Canon A570 IS Mods: • Nothing should happen. This is OK • Power off camera.
Canon A570 IS Mods: • Remove the SD card and slide switch to “LOCKED” Even though the card is in the “LOCKED” position it will be able to be written to via the CHDK firmware.
Canon A570 IS Mods: • Insert locked SD card and make sure the camera is in “RECORD” mode • Power on the camera • If the script that runs is the Gateway 2009 script than you can skip to end of these steps
Canon A570 IS Mods: • Insert locked SD card and make sure the camera is in “RECORD” mode • Power on the camera • “Default Script” and the “<ALT>” should be visible • Press the shutter button to stop script
Canon A570 IS Mods: • With “<ALT>” showing, click on the menu to get to the “<CNF>” screen.
Canon A570 IS Mods: • Use the control pad to move the cursor down to "Scripting parameters" and push "SET"
Canon A570 IS Mods: • On the “Script” menu select "Load script from file..."