Bare minimum investment for playing with OpenCV?

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I was asked about this by a friend and thought I'd re-ask it here as I didn't know :slight_smile: If someone wanted to play with computer vision for the purposes of optically tracking a moving target, what sort of kit would he need to buy as a bare minimum for learning the basic principles?

The brief is for an airsoft/paintball smart sentry gun that should only react to something that looks like a person, and follow it once within it's field of view... as far as I'm aware time and money are no object but the initial outlay should be as low as possible in case of a "waaah it's too hard" meltdown :slight_smile:

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A webcam and computer to process the image and an arduino with a few servos to control the gun. Do a google search for arduino sentry gun and you should come up with some decent results.

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BulletMagnet83:
I was asked about this by a friend and thought I'd re-ask it here as I didn't know :slight_smile: If someone wanted to play with computer vision for the purposes of optically tracking a moving target, what sort of kit would he need to buy as a bare minimum for learning the basic principles?

You would need a video camera such as a common or garden USB webcam, and a perfectly ordinary desktop computer.

None of this relates to Arduino in any way.

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http://projectsentrygun.rudolphlabs.com/

Everything you need is there.

Uses Arduino, Webcam and Processing running on a laptop or PC.

We've got a few we're building at the moment, with a few tweaks, amongst other props. :wink:

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