Release
v0.1 release notes
What landed in the first public lab-kit release of Orbiter — CAD, firmware, server, UI, Docker stack, and an optional COLMAP container.
What's in v0.1
The first lab-kit release ships as a single repo with five sub-systems and a docker-compose to bring them up. The pieces all came out of an active research project; v0.1 is the snapshot where each one stops depending on internal-only state.
Highlights
- CAD: full assembly (
.glb/.fbx/.obj) plus seven printable STLs. - Firmware: ESP-IDF v6 project. Treats the rig as a generic 2-axis IP
actuator with absolute encoder feedback — REST
POST /move+ WebSocket log stream. - Server: FastAPI. Owns the model state, talks to the ESP32 and the
camera, writes manifests and photo files. Server-side scene-graph diff
protocol over
/ws/scene. - UI: Vite + React + react-three-fiber. Two tabs — Scaner and Library.
- COLMAP container: optional; consumes the session's SfM-priors JSON and runs the dense pipeline end-to-end.
Grab it
RawMechatronics/Orbiter
Two-axis Wi-Fi pan-tilt camera rig — CAD + ESP32 firmware + FastAPI server + Vite/R3F UI, packaged as a lab kit. v0.1.
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