I just built PIXY Cam and pan-tilt mechanism, Great hardware, goes together easily and has good instructions online. I use PixyMon under windows XP 64 to control the pixy. It's tracking is wacky. Recognition is by color, and it is amazing how many of the same color objects are in the FOV, which sends it crazy trying to track. Recognition by color!!! My Pixycam pan-tilt only two days old Maybe it will get smarter?
+Cozmic Ray That's unfortunate to hear that it gets very confused with similar colors in the background. Although not surprising at all. But with a fairly well contrasted scene or just a solid single color background I bet it works pretty well. I don't think it would get smarter, I don't think there's any kind of learning software built in - your only way to improve tracking would be, as described above, more contrasty scene/uniform background. Despite that limitation, still seems like a super cool gadget with lots and lots of potential!
how come i dont see the servo protocols in any of this libraries ? i see the xy w and h but i dont see those values being ported over to the serial for arduino to tell servo to move
Hi thanks for the video, I would like to do a project of facial recognition, do you recommend me to use the pixy for detecting face and tracking. Thanks
Thanks. I will be testing the Arduino interface this week and post something. I have had some issues with video noise / tolerance and problems tracking objects that were shiny. That's why I opted for the pink ball in the video, because it was matte. I need to play with the filtering and perhaps better lighting behind the camera.
looks to be a relatively easy setup. I hope there will be a few Pixie tutorials in conjunction with Arduino. e.g.. I'd like to have a second set of servos operate when a coloured object moves out of view.. & then the servo would move the robots base to compensate.
I had a similar thoughts, but the documentation seems to be missing. I can't find the object follow program. ArduPilot sounds interesting, Quad or plane?
I will work on some arduino setups this week. Adding additional servo's should not be difficult. You could also get a continuous 360 degree servo for the pan as long as you don't get the wires wrapped up in too many twists, or use a slip ring.
I'm planning to develop an RC aircraft.. Pixy cam will rotate 360º & the aircraft's 3 flight servos should react to Pixy's input.. so for example if the targeted color were to start to drift to high out of view in the pos. Y axis pixy would adjust the flight controls accordingly to bring the target back into a central location. The part I am interested in is 1.) sending PWM signals to Arduino from Pixy 2.) allowing Arduino (Ardupilot) to take over control of the servos at a set altitude
nice one I'm interested in connecting to Arduino & get a few motors running or extra servos.... not only the Pixie cam servos. I'm hoping to interface with ArduPilot.
Michael Banks a bit old but I'm doing the same thing for autopilot landing! checkout my forum post here if you'd like to discuss it cmucam.org/boards/9/topics/5893
Hello Tony Bowren, Can you add the code and electronic schematic to the pan/tilt mechanism ? The link you left doesn't work: www.cmucam.org/projects/cmucam5
Very nice work! We built a similar project. However, we track the green BugDroid. Here is the preliminary result: ruclips.net/video/IpGD7KBM4zA/видео.html
Very cool. I like OpenCV and have played with it, however it usually takes a lot of bandwith and CPU power to process the images. The main benefit of the Pixycam is that only the useful data like the position and size of the tracked objects is sent, leaving your cpu totally free for other tasks.
I just built PIXY Cam and pan-tilt mechanism, Great hardware, goes together easily
and has good instructions online. I use PixyMon under windows XP 64 to control
the pixy.
It's tracking is wacky. Recognition is by color, and it is amazing how many of the
same color objects are in the FOV, which sends it crazy trying to track.
Recognition by color!!!
My Pixycam pan-tilt only two days old
Maybe it will get smarter?
+Cozmic Ray That's unfortunate to hear that it gets very confused with similar colors in the background. Although not surprising at all. But with a fairly well contrasted scene or just a solid single color background I bet it works pretty well. I don't think it would get smarter, I don't think there's any kind of learning software built in - your only way to improve tracking would be, as described above, more contrasty scene/uniform background.
Despite that limitation, still seems like a super cool gadget with lots and lots of potential!
how come i dont see the servo protocols in any of this libraries ? i see the xy w and h but i dont see those values being ported over to the serial for arduino to tell servo to move
Ola amigo?
a pixy cam também é capaz de seguir pessoas? qual a distancia máxima que ela consegue seguir um objeto?
can you share how you do with the computer please ??
Hi thanks for the video, I would like to do a project of facial recognition, do you recommend me to use the pixy for detecting face and tracking. Thanks
Omar Cuba no this is for color recognition only.
Very nice! Can't wait to get hold of my two in the UK! Keep us posted on your progress, how is the arduino interface?
Thanks. I will be testing the Arduino interface this week and post something. I have had some issues with video noise / tolerance and problems tracking objects that were shiny. That's why I opted for the pink ball in the video, because it was matte. I need to play with the filtering and perhaps better lighting behind the camera.
looks to be a relatively easy setup.
I hope there will be a few Pixie tutorials in conjunction with Arduino. e.g.. I'd like to have a second set of servos operate when a coloured object moves out of view.. & then the servo would move the robots base to compensate.
I had a similar thoughts, but the documentation seems to be missing. I can't find the object follow program. ArduPilot sounds interesting, Quad or plane?
I will work on some arduino setups this week. Adding additional servo's should not be difficult. You could also get a continuous 360 degree servo for the pan as long as you don't get the wires wrapped up in too many twists, or use a slip ring.
I'm planning to develop an RC aircraft.. Pixy cam will rotate 360º & the aircraft's 3 flight servos should react to Pixy's input.. so for example if the targeted color were to start to drift to high out of view in the pos. Y axis pixy would adjust the flight controls accordingly to bring the target back into a central location. The part I am interested in is
1.) sending PWM signals to Arduino from Pixy
2.) allowing Arduino (Ardupilot) to take over control of the servos at a set altitude
Can you say dimensions of pixy with pan/tilt mechanism? Because in my project I have just 80x80x80 millimeters space for this?:)
nice one
I'm interested in connecting to Arduino & get a few motors running or extra servos.... not only the Pixie cam servos. I'm hoping to interface with ArduPilot.
Michael Banks a bit old but I'm doing the same thing for autopilot landing! checkout my forum post here if you'd like to discuss it cmucam.org/boards/9/topics/5893
I need your help in my project ...
can you send me the code arduino for the pixy cmucam5 and Kit Tourelle Pan / Tilt ...
Hello Tony Bowren,
Can you add the code and electronic schematic to the pan/tilt mechanism ? The link you left doesn't work: www.cmucam.org/projects/cmucam5
Good
hi bro can u send me code ardunio.....pls
Very nice work! We built a similar project. However, we track the green BugDroid. Here is the preliminary result:
ruclips.net/video/IpGD7KBM4zA/видео.html
Very cool. I like OpenCV and have played with it, however it usually takes a lot of bandwith and CPU power to process the images. The main benefit of the Pixycam is that only the useful data like the position and size of the tracked objects is sent, leaving your cpu totally free for other tasks.
Can i know your pan and tilt mechanism