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  • Best Practices for Ladybug

    The purpose of this application note is to describe a series of settings and hardware configurations to optimize Ladybug image quality.

  • Buffering a GPIO pin strobe output signal using an optocoupler to drive external devices

    The purpose of this Technical Application Note is to provide the user with the ability to drive an external device, such as a strobe light, LED, or other apparatus, that requires more power or voltage than the Applicable Product’s GPIO pins are capable of generating. For example, the Flea GPIO pins are TTL 3.3V pins protected by two diodes to +3.3V and GND in parallel. The pins have almost no drive strength (less than 1mA), and are therefore unable to trigger many external devices, such as the X-Strobe™ strobe. In order to trigger such a device, which requires a +5V TTL pulse and 20mA of current, the signal off the GPIO pins must be buffered with a transistor or driver, such as an optocoupler, to lower the impedance. This TAN describes alternatives for users who wish to: 1. Purchase an off-the-shelf optocoupler solution; or 2. Build their own optocoupler circuit.

  • Calibrating to Reduce Horizontal Line Artifact

    This application note describes a known artifact of the Sony IMX036 sensor and provides steps that can be taken to reduce the effect.

  • Configuring and Testing the RS-232 Serial Port

    The purpose of this Technical Application Note is to provide the user with a set of basic instructions on how to configure and test the RS-232 serial port functionality for a FLIR camera. The camera is equipped with a set of general purpose input/output (GPIO) pins that can be accessed via the connector on the back. Different products may use different connectors.

  • Configuring Synchronized Capture with Multiple Cameras

    This document describes how to set up multiple cameras for synchronized capture.

  • Developing an Object Detection Application for Firefly-DL

    This application note describes the end-to-end development process for QR code detection run on the Firefly-DL camera. Other object detection applications can be developed following the same process.

  • Developing Microsoft® DirectShow® applications with FlyCapture®

    The purpose of this Technical Application Note is to show developers how to set up their build environment in order to effectively use the FlyCapture library for developing DirectShow-based applications. This TAN will explain how to prepare the build environment so that sample image capture applications included in the SDK, such as AMCap and PlayCap, can be built successfully. Once this is completed, the environment will be ready for use with custom applications.

  • Extending the Working Distance of USB 3.1 Cameras

    This application note describes the common USB 3.1 accessories that are available for extending the working distance of the camera.

  • Factors to Consider When Designing a Multiple Camera Array

    The purpose of this Technical Application Note is to examine the various factors to take into consideration when designing and implementing a multiple camera array.

  • Feature Locking in Spinnaker API

    This application note describes the reasons why some camera features are inaccessible to the API.

  • Getting Started with AWS Sagemaker for Image Classification

    Amazon Sagemaker is a fully managed service that provides the ability to build, train, and deploy machine learning models that can be deployed on FLIR Firefly-DL cameras. Sagemaker removes the heavy lifting from each step of the machine learning process to make it easier to develop high quality models.

  • Getting Started with Firefly-DL in Windows

    This application note describes how to create a graph file for the Firefly-DL camera using Windows.