Read analog micrometer with webcam, what name to give the software ?

[vroemm]

Hi..

I am looking for a name to give to GPL open source software i wrote.
See screenshots below.

Maybe someone here can come up with a suitable name for it ?
Preferably a short name. (better for use inside the source code.)
And a name which gives none or a few hits on google.
Which makes it easier to find info on it for users.

The software does this:

Take a analogue micrometer.
Aim a webcam at the micrometer.
Then start my program.
The prog takes a picture of the micrometer with the webcam.
The prog finds the position of the needle on the micrometer.
And displays the found value on screen.
And puts the found value in a chart.

Currently the prog can take 4 pictures per second on my slow celeron 700 mhz computer.
This is 4 x 3600 = 14400 measurements in one hour :-)
Can you beat this by eye and hand ?? :-)))
All nicely stored in a chart in a image file.

You can move the micrometer over a surface with a servo motor.
Gathering lots of data, while you are sitting back and are smiling :-)

A screen shot of the prog with an example.
The example question is how much does this axis wobble ?
The point of the micrometer is put on the 10 mm axis of a servo motor.
The axis slowly makes several turns.
Mean while the prog reads the micrometer 4 times per second.
The result shows the axis wobbles about 20 micrometer.



The resulting png file with the measured data.




Hopefully someone can come up with a nice name.

Thanks

Vroemm.

[vroemm]

What happened to the screen shots i placed in the message ?

Vroemm.

[WeCheat]

My vote is opti-mic would be nice if you could re post the pics and maybe a video.
Greg

[vroemm]

Thanks for the name.
It is surprisingly difficult to find a reasonable name.

Is there something which is better then this principal of measuring fast ?

Here are the screenshots again.
Now the first two in smaller resolution of 800x600.

It is likely the previous where removed because they exceeded the max resolution allowed on cnczone.








Vroemm

[ligito]

RAMView

Remote Analog Micrometer Viewer

[vroemm]

My vote is opti-mic

There is allready software called opti-mic.
http://www.sharewareconnection.com/titles/optimic.htm

Nice try.
I had not thought of using 'opti' in the name.

Thanks for the try.

vroemm.

[vroemm]

RAMView

Remote Analog Micrometer Viewer

Software named RAMVIEW allready exists.

http://www.epie.org/k12/PCMAGUTL.HTM

Thanks for the attempt.

Vroemm.

[bclark6716]

How about micCam. Did a google search and nothing came up.

Very interesting program. Would like to see a video or pics of the actual machine setup.

Thanks
Brian

[vroemm]

How about micCam. Did a google search and nothing came up.

There is mic-cam software, 6 million hits.

http://mic-cam.software.informer.com/

The name could also be not related to measuring or webcams.
Just a meaningless combination of characters might be ok as name.

Thanks

vroemm.

[Eurisko]

I'd hesitate to use the word "micrometer" in the name of the software.

The instrument being read is generally referred to as a dial depth indicator.

I'm sorry. I'm obsessive-compulsive.

[vroemm]

The instrument being read is generally referred to as a dial depth indicator.
I'm sorry. I'm obsessive-compulsive.

Its ok, it leads to new options.

Like: DDICAM
Which i liked.

But there is DICAM software.

http://www.dicamusa.com/Software.aspx

[vroemm]

ddithing ? :-)

No software with this name.

vroemm