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SpectralCap (WIP)

Hyper-spectral image capture and preprocessing.

Focuses on photography of IR and UV light in addition to visible light.

This project center's around a high-power LED controller, which is controlled by a Adafruit Itsy-bitsy M0 Express.

The design is capable of running up to 12 different LEDs, with the limitation that only one be fully on at a time, and an external bench constant-current power source be used. The controller is powered independantly from the LEDs, and up to ~1A of current can be run through the controller.

Lights can be controlled with a serial command interface defined in SerialCom.cpp. (Or simply send 'help' in the serial console for the commands to be displayed)

Project schematics and PCB are available here. The PCBs can be bought assembled from JLCPCB, with the exception of the Itsy-bitsy M0 Express, which must be supplied and soldered on manually.

Disclaimer

This project is a bit of a reach. Hyperspectal photography is more easily done with a filter wheel, and outdoors.

Using LEDs as a hyperspectral source does give you more control over levels and makes things like UV photography more feasible, but it's very involved.

What can I say, I wanted to try it and see what happened!

This also means that my code isn't exactly commented very well, because this was mostly just an experiment for me, sorry! (Please contact me if you want more info.)

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High-Power LED Control for Hyper-Spectral Photography

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