All the parts arrived today, if you want to follow along building a wireless touchscreen controller for your Z CAM then here are all the parts I used
Preliminary Parts list for DIY developers
- ~50$ Raspberry Pi 3b (Supplier 1) | (Supplier 2) | (Supplier 3) + STL ref designs
- ~25$ 18650 UPS + Docs
- ~40$ 4.3″ Waveshare + Docs
- ~25$ 18650 Batteries with charger or a 18650 with 4 Bay Charger
- ~10$ Micro SD Card (16GB Industrial) | (64GB Sandisk Extreme)
On the software side of things the team spent an hour to reverse engineer the ipad functionality to take a still image, only to realize 15 minutes later that it was roughly the same as was documented in the E1 HTTP commands. Next is updating the out of date vue.js environments to a more up-to-date one with wider compatibility.
