@mikenz
Good work for a Sunday, I have seen your progress.
Try to measure the synch, it really is important.
Pity about synched video, that is the 'big one' that many people want.
David
I've looked through my house and there's nothing I could find to test the sync at the moment. The only spinning things are way to fast (CPU/case fans). None of us have bicycles either. I'll keep looking for something while I'm shopping today.
For video, I'd wait for the next version of the cameras. I was optimistic when I first opened the sync cable when I saw the clock 1-4 fanout buffer. I was expecting this to take the 96Mhz clock for the master image sensor and pass that to the slave so they were perfectly gen locked. Unfortunately on the current model that doesn't seem to happen. The pin on the slave that receives the clock is a ground pin at the moment.
Apart from not needing video, the main reason I didn't bother with video is I can't measure the frequency of that frame clock pulse accurately and don't want to try generate a precise clock from my Arduino. But the logic analyser shows nothing complicated is happening.
I just had a thought - my kite reel is round and spins!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikesflat/sets/72157624365115984/ I'll find a way to mount it today and post some photos of the syncronization - will probably be after lunch if I have 3 cameras wired by then (7:45am now).
