Space1 2019 Space Security Division

Space Security Division - Commando Units
SPACE1 Industries takes security very seriously and has increased security in 2019 to a new all time high on red alert. After a recent threat and attempt at theft of intellectual property as joint reported by Attorney AH and Chief of the Board, SPACE1 has increased its Space Security Division multiple fold.

Security is the tightest, as new hired full salaried specialist commandos guard the premises 24/7 and no one can enter the compound without direct voice to voice authorization from either the Founder/Director or the President. Those with permission to enter the main compound will also undergo facial recognition by Commando Central and will be required to pass all check points.

Security equipment includes half foot thick solid steel doors at the premises with no windows and 6 to ten deadbolts on each blast rated door. Each door is mechanically pass protected with multiple alarms. The request for authorization to enter sounds an alarm and anytime the door is opened an alarm is sounded.

The building is further pass protected with massive ten foot high steel and iron doors, additionally equipped with motion detectors and electronic digital keyed computer controlled panels. Protection is additionally multi fold with facial recognition, fingerprints, electronic keys, motion detection, video surveillance cameras, guard recognition and query, and mechanical barrel bores to name a few. All actions are recorded and monitored on live security video feed systems.

Elevators are now security password protected and will remain dead without the correct authorization security passwords. For a person to enter, there are multiple authorization check points, each with an alarm. All checkpoints, hallways, doors, interiors, exteriors, commando central, elevators, etc. are equipped with identification security cameras, monitored and recorded 24/7.

The new Space Security Division Commando Units now voraciously screen incoming threats to its online systems. The super computing center is guarded by monitoring all data, inclusive of all email and e-communications with personnel both inside and outside of SPACE1. New law voted into effect now prohibits the rehiring of an individual who was previously fired or quit. Anyone violating the Protection Naming Act of Handle Use will be immediately expelled. Additional laws amend the 2014 Charter.

Space1 Fish Space Plant Transformer

Fish Space Transformer Plant

To prevent Dwarf Puffer fish in the Astronaut Training Program from becoming bored in their environment after hours and stunting their intellectual potentials, Humanoido has invented the Transformer Plant. On Earth, the plant acts weightless with a balanced buoyancy that can float as if floating weightless in space.

The unique invention is a submerged plant variety that's judiciously pruned to alter its center of gravity, so that it constantly changes floats, changing its position while rotating in the tank. This is based on its changing balance of buoyancy due to water pressure variance caused by the opposing water pressure balance of two water filter aerators. 

This greatly amuses the fish, entertains for hours, and pleases the fish who get to explore the plant in motion from an infinite number of angles, views, locations, and positions.

It's also likely the fish enjoy playing with the changing water currents as the plant is transforming its position. As Dwarf Puffer fish are very curious fish and avid explorers, the Transformer Plant offers a great opportunity of excitement and challenge.

Photos, taken with the new Fish Side Cam, show the changing transforming position of the Transformer Plant over the course of a few minutes. Also seen are numerous fish exploring the interesting plant.

Space1 Dwarf Puffer Fish Update 1

1st photo from the new side Fish Cam

Brainy Dwarf Puffer Fish Updates
Space1 has taken charge of picky and brainy dwarf puffer fish which have applied for the Astronaut Training Program, and made changes thus creating their new environment. 

Their school is now doubled in size from one gallon to two gallons, along with two filters instead of one, a gravel floor instead of pellet soil, and with plants reconfigured to improve the environment and more readily amuse the fish.

The fish have grown in two weeks and are now accustomed to hand feeding of frozen blood worms. Their diet was recently supplemented with a mosquito that was eaten by the meat eating group faster than the eyes could see. Lighting from high intensity LEDs was turned off due to its creation of algae and are used only during feeding.

The worm in the small tank was identified as a harmless Rhabdocoela worm. These worms usually stay in the ground soil and only occasionally appear on the walls. If anything, they eat waste from the ground for recycling like tiny scavengers. The worm introduction to the new tank was carefully avoided as they compete with snails. The plan is to introduce common snails to the small tank for growing after the tank is reset. Then, snails will become another food staple for the fish who can grind their teeth on the shells.

Also modified is the Fish Cam, now relocated to the right side of the tank, and mounted on the small one gallon aquarium. On the order list is an aquarium twenty times the size of the original aquarium. A larger tank is much more stable and can hold more fish. The smallest fish tank may be repurposed as a terrarium to grow talking plants. The fish, always raised as a group, are not overly territorial and new plants will soon be introduced.

They often observe every leaf on the vegetation with much patience and curiosity but never pick at it for food remnants. They like to eat only fresh new introduced meat food and once it hits the ground, it will be ignored. For this reason, the instructor now holds the food at the water surface until the fish swarm and tear it from the hand. Keeping the tank clean requires a siphon pump and hose for cleaning the gravel every day.

Space1 DIY Fish Cam

How to Build a DIY Fish Cam

Fish Cam with stock lens prefocused

Introduction
The fish cam is made from a discarded discontinued 8-bit 640x480 logitech computer cam with an adjustable lens. Good images of fish are obtained by turning the lens to the shortest possible focal length which is about 3 inches. This images fish swimming about 3-inches into the tank. However, the field of view is much too limited and one must wait some time for a fish to swim into focus.

The color USB web camera is made for Microsoft Windows on a PC computer. The third party Mac software shows 640x480 photos using a 1,300,000 pixel CCD. It has a 2.6-foot cord built in. Macam software can be downloaded for free and will include live views, adjustments and photo capture.

Original Logitech Cam

Modification
The cam has a plastic case with a swing down lid that gets in the way of mounting to aquarium. As the cam was old, it was easy to snap off the lid thus creating greater clearance between the cam and the face of the glass aquarium for easy mounting using 3M duct tape. Fig. 2

Making the Cam Mount
The Cam fits into a discarded 2.5-inch diameter plastic water bottle trimmed 4-inches from the bottom and with a semicircular cutout for the lens. Slide the mount back and forth in front of the tank and adjust the cam lens focus for each distance.

Pinhole increased depth but with vignetting

Improving the Depth of View
To improve the depth of view to capture sharper images of fish beyond the 3-inch range, an aperture pin hole stop was placed over the lens. The aperture stop successfully improved focus across a larger depth of view however it also caused significant vignetting, thus limiting the FOV field of view to a small circle in the center of the frame.

Added fish eye phone lens for a wide FOV

Larger Field of View
To improve the cam significantly, create a much larger FOV, and maintain a large field depth focus, an extra lens was added to the existing cam lens. At a cost under US$10, the  37mm 0.45x 49UV Super Wide Angle Phone Lens was configured and clipped onto the front of the cam over the lens center. Readjust the cam lens for focus each time the cam is moved. The result is a dramatic improvement, showing more fish throughout most of the aquarium in focus.

TV-like view of entire aquarium is amazing

Attaching the Modified Cam
There are two options. One, attach the modified cam with the extra lens direct to the glass front of the aquarium with duct tape. This will show the appearance of larger fish in the direction of where the cam is aimed. The second option is to mount the cam farther away from the front of the tank. This can give a TV-like view of the entire aquarium for watching all the fish at the same time. Again, the original cam lens will need to be refocused for the sharpest view.

Live window is spectacular to watch

Using the Fish Cam
While the Fish Cam can provide hours of entertainment and is loads of fun, it can also be psychological beneficial with its mood calming, and scientifically useful. The Fish Cam window can be placed anywhere on your work computer screen like a real time miniature aquarium. The cam can photo, video record and monitor a community of fish and analyze swarming patterns, behaviors, eating patterns, and identify fish by their analyzed markings. It can identify healthy or sick fish and study the condition of the plants and tank. It can be used to create a digital photo book and show growing fish and plants over time. Get to know your fish closeup. If the aquarium is a small nano tank, the Fish Cam electronic window lifts up the image of the tank and fish to a very convenient location. Watching the live window on a Mac with Macam is spectacular as the top half of the tank is a moving rippling reflection of the water and fish below.

Fish Cam with extra fish-eye lens attached

Going Further
Ironically the best views are with the fish-eye lens. However, the wide angle fish eye lens may be reconfigured as a macro lens to take microscope-like images. This can be useful for examining fish and plants close-up though it may require special mounting.

Links
Macam Download

The Fish Cam has a simple recycled bottle mount with clip on fish eye mobile lens

http://webcam-osx.sourceforge.net/
https://sourceforge.net/projects/webcam-osx/

Logitech Cam
http://www.novatechgadgets.com/loquwefornow.html
https://www.pocket-lint.com/laptops/reviews/logitech/67375-logitech-quickcam-notebooks-pro-webcam
http://www.zdtronic.com/WEBCAMS/LOGITECH-961240-0403-QUICKCAM-PRO-USB-WEBCAM-FOR-NOTEBOOKS.html
https://www.cnet.com/products/logitech-quickcam-for-notebooks-pro/specs/

Space1 Smallest Rocket Cam in the World

Space1 unveils the worlds smallest rocket cam

Breaking News: Friday April 8, 2016

Space1 Lab unveils the world's smallest rocket cam today. Named Rocket CAM, the prized part is smaller than the size of a postage stamp, smaller than a thumb nail, and only a few millimeters on each side.

The high resolution cam is constructed for multi-functionality during rocket flight. Modular functions make it programmable for a number conditions. Added supporting parts creates more functions such as a down-link telemetry based package to send data from the rocket, to include space bound images with motion video, to a rocket ground base. The raw camera includes an electronic driver board which has a standard compatible interface and handles multiple dimensions of wave-forms. It draws energy off high power Lithium Ion cells for activity throughout the entire rocket flight, ideal for space tourism missions.

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