Hello. So this is my first time doing anything with an Arduino. What I am looking to make would involve the following. So I am just wondering what the best would be to buy.
A camera. I am thinking I would need a video camera that can take pictures because I would like to apply recognition to the video stream (only take pictures if there are certain things in the view)
I'd like to be able to rotate the camera (basically have it rotate forward/backward side to side and in between any angle.
I'd like to be able to zoom the camera in and out to get some close up shots etc.
It would connect to the internet/wifi so that the images could then be sent to a server
Perhaps a GPS.
I think that is it for now. The top ones are the most important right now.
Maybe an arduino would not be the best bet? I heard of a beagleboard but I don't think the camera rotates (BeagleBoard.org - bone)
florinangeru:
You can make this project with Arduino
Slow down there turbo...
I would like to apply recognition to the video stream (only take pictures if there are certain things in the view)
Are you expecting the Arduino or some other piece of hardware to do the image processing? Arduino really isn't powerful enough to handle video processing.
florinangeru:
You can make this project with Arduino
Slow down there turbo...
I would like to apply recognition to the video stream (only take pictures if there are certain things in the view)
Are you expecting the Arduino or some other piece of hardware to do the image processing? Arduino really isn't powerful enough to handle video processing.
I guess it wouldn't have to. It could send the images to a server and I could analyze them there. But if it could run opencv on it that would be better. It wouldn't be heavy video processing (likely just face detection). I've looked at maybe rasperry pi as well.
Jonovono:
I guess it wouldn't have to. It could send the images to a server and I could analyze them there. But if it could run opencv on it that would be better. It wouldn't be heavy video processing (likely just face detection). I've looked at maybe rasperry pi as well.
I'm not talking about heavy video processing, I'm talking about ANY video processing. Even just reading the picture from the camera and sending it to a computer, you would only be good for low resolution pictures being sent infrequently. You're better off with a Raspberry Pi or a comparable device.
On the uno you have only 2k bytes of ram and 32k of program memory so forget video processing and stills processing the the uno 16meg processing speed think in tems of getting and passing along 1 very small B/W image per few seconds!.
As you don't tell use what your project really is its hard to help you. But from the parts list you gave I think its some kind of remote control cam with a wireless connection. If so then
Yes and Uno can control two servos to give you pan and tilt. Yes it can have WiFi via the WiFi shield or by using the wireless/SD shield along with a WiFLY WiFi card. The WiFi can give you control of the servos.
You could then add sensors to allow automatic aiming of a camera.
The only problem now is the camera. I see two choices
a) a still/video cam with remote control but this would mean you need to go and get the images. Or
b) a wireless IP cam basically a WiFi web cam google "foscam".