An open-source camera system for experimental measurements

Kim Miikki; Alp Karakoç; Mahdi Rafiee; Duck Weon Lee; Jaana Vapaavuori; Jennifer Tersteegen; Laura Lemetti; Jouni Paltakari

doi:10.1016/j.softx.2021.100688

An open-source camera system for experimental measurements

Kim Miikki, Alp Karakoç^*, Mahdi Rafiee, Duck Weon Lee, Jaana Vapaavuori, Jennifer Tersteegen, Laura Lemetti, Jouni Paltakari

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Abstract

We present an affordable, yet accurate and modular camera system solution developed on Raspberry Pi 4/4 GB platform with Raspberry v2.x and HQ camera modules with 8 and 12.3 megapixels still resolutions, respectively. The system uses freely available Python scripts and libraries for digital image processing and non-contact optical measurements under MIT licenses as a contribution to the open-source initiative. Several investigations were conducted with the present system, which were two-dimensional (2D) digital image correlation (DIC) for the displacement and strain analysis, the kinetic analysis of the photoisomerization of the spiropyran (a model system for a time-dependent chemical reaction yielding molecules with differing color with respect to starting material) with time-lapse photography, lap shear tests with the assistance of high-speed image capturing and contact (wetting) angle measurements with still images and time-lapse photography. These studies show that the camera system, setups and scripts can be confidently integrated into the chemical, physical and mechanical tests.

Original language	English
Article number	100688
Number of pages	9
Journal	SoftwareX
Volume	14
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.softx.2021.100688
Publication status	Published - Jun 2021
MoE publication type	A1 Journal article-refereed

Keywords

Digital image processing
Non-contact optical measurements
Open-source initiative
Raspberry Pi

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