Here are some fun/useful/interesting DIY projects you can do with your THETA. If you have any DIY projects you’d like to add, just post a comment and I’ll take a look!
Reddit instructions for printing 360 images
Philohome tutorial for 3D panorama printing
$3 tripod mod for livestreaming
Using THETA box to make VR goggles
Making a remote shutter control
Increase your THETA storage with the right SD card
Overheating? Cool off your THETA with a fan and this 3D-printed holder
I’ve created in Ruby a project to detect northern lights on the sky using a Ricoh Theta S.
If you are interested take a look at: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6384460562562052096
This looks really cool. I’m going to take a closer look tomorrow, hopefully. I was just looking at using ImageMagick for a THETA project, so it’s cool to see how you implemented minimagick. What do you do to scan for northern lights, is it watching for a certain level of brightness using minimagick? Also, do you have any pictures of your hardware test setup? Really cool that you include WEATHER_API_KEY, since I’m guessing clouds and northern lights might be detected in a similar fashion (and cause false positives). Why did you choose to build it in Ruby? Thanks for posting!
thanks!
I am looking just at the sky after sunset and when it is not cloudy since it is not possible to see the northern lights when cloudy or daylight, then I am selecting the part of the sky that is considered sky and pixel by pixel identifying how green it is, depending on the percentage of the pixels found I declare an aurora index. I don’t have any public data to test.
I used Ruby… just because I am happier writing code on Ruby 
Checking green-ness pixel by pixel, love it!
I see a typo in Line 36 of aurora_detector.rb - Ok to submit a PR to fix it?
And, yes, was pretty sure that would be your answer on Ruby. 
Super cool!
go ahead! thanks!!!
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