I just took my first picture using the F1 key with one of the two cams on the smart cam part of the Cyberdeck Project. Three days. Two work and one rest...
The cam is a Waveshare 18245 8-50mm Zoom Lens. It has three movable nobs. I kid you not.
No, the Waveshare 18245 8-50mm lens cannot auto-focus. It is a completely manual lens.
But that is no problem. I have another cam in the pipeline which is a NoIR camera and that also can't auto-focus.
Here is a punchy, reader-friendly summary ready for your blog post:
Building a Motorcycle AI Camera? Skip Autofocus and Go Manual.
When mounting a Raspberry Pi and a Hailo AI chip to a motorcycle for city traffic object recognition, ditch autofocus. Microscopic autofocus motors are too slow for urban speeds (30–50 km/h) and easily get distracted by passing lampposts or tree branches, blinding your AI.
Instead, go old-school with a heavy-duty, lockable manual lens (like the Waveshare 8-50mm) paired with a 3D-printed vibration-damping rig. By setting the lens wide to 8mm and manual-focusing at 15 meters, you create a massive, permanent "sharp zone." Everything from your front tire to the end of the block stays crystal clear instantly. The AI gets perfect pixels on frame one with zero mechanical delay, zero hunting, and total immunity to engine vibrations!
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PS: Get away and Distraction Runs you need auto-focus. Trust US. We are provos, the terrorist gang CIA doesn't want you to know. IRA. Republican, Constitutinalists, Free.
So, you can't without having 4 letters publish our stuff. Three ain enough. Too short.
now they count provos letters
