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Welcome to Papywizard project

Introduction

Papywizard is a panohead control software, mainly developped for the Merlin/Orion astronomic mount, but usable for other panoheads with small effort.

Papywizard is entirely written in python and, although developped under linux, should runs under many platformes (Windows/WindowsCE, MacOS, Unix...). It is especially designed to run on small plateforms, like PDA. Unfortunally, my tests under PocketPC showed that it is very difficult to develop on it. I bought a used Nokia 770 Internet Tablet, and successfully ran Papywizard :o) Some guys successfully ran it on N800 and N810. So I concentrate my efforts on maemo plateform... Another future solution will be to use Openmoko plateform, with the recently available FreeRunner cellphone.

Anyway, at this time, Papywizard successfully runs on PC/linux, Nokia/maemo, and PC/win32 (still having issue with bluetooth). It should run as well on MacOS, but nobody tried it yet.

This project is developped in collaboration with Kolor company, which develops Autopano Pro, a great stitcher software. Thanks to Alexandre for its support!

Papywizard is not a commercial project: I develop it on my free time, because it is fun. So, I don't make support for professional usage. This does not mean that it can't be used by pro photographers, but be aware that things can go wrong while shooting, and neither my responsability, nor Kolor one, can be engaged is such case.

Enjoy!
The Papywizard team

Latest news

2008-11: version 1.2.0 is out. A lot of improvements for this release (custom user presets, Windows installer...); see the ChangeLog for all new features...
2008-10: Openmoko seems a good candidate, as Papywizard runs on it out-of-the-box (simulation mode). More tests to come.
2008-09: Papywizard runs again under Windows (svn version), except for bluetooth. Hope to fix this soon.
2008-09: version 1.0 is out! See the ChangeLog...

License

All Papywizard files and documents are released under CeCILL, a french free license, based on and compatible with GPL.

Related discussions

The project started on the Autopano Pro forum, where someone has bring the idea to use an astronomic mount for panoramic shots. The very low price of the Merlin/Orion mount made it the perfect candidate. The only things to do were an electronic interface, and a little software to drive it!

Wiki français Autopano Pro - Page wiki française sur la tête Merlin
English Autopano Pro wiki -- English Orion related wiki page

Forum français Autopano Pro - Discussions en français sur la tête panoramique motorisée basée la Merlin/Orion
English Autopano Pro forum - English discussions on Merlin/Orion-based motorized panohead

Use the forums for questions, bugs reports, or to ask for new features.

Documentation

Screenshots

See this page.

Download

Zip archives can be downloaded from source pages.

Stable version

If you are using a Nokia, the best way to install Papywizard is to add my catalogue, then use the maemo application manager. See Installation on Nokia.