Camera and GPS on rc boat

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Hello people!
New guy here, started to learn arduino few weeks ago. I took a project for my uni in which i have to make an autopilot rc boat with a camera on it (relatively with good quaity video capture capabilities) to make a timelapse video. So my first question is which arduino can handle gps sensor data and the camera data and my second question is if a single transceiver can do all the work on the boat and if yes which one for long range? ( up to 5km)

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You need to define what you mean by "handle".
The Arduino can control a camera but it has very limited memory. It cannot process images itself.

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ardly:
You need to define what you mean by "handle".
The Arduino can control a camera but it has very limited memory. It cannot process images itself.

Hmm i see. How other people made projects with camera via wifi on rc?
Can you please suggest any module that can process and send good quality video data? For the ram a solution might be the microSD card module?

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Use a separate computer, like the RPi, for the camera.

Any Arduino would be fine to read the GPS and steer the boat. The example below uses an Arduino-compatible Orangutan SV-168 from Pololu, which has half the memory of an Arduino Uno.

Short (1.3 minute) video:

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sirick:
Hello people!
New guy here, started to learn arduino few weeks ago. I took a project for my uni in which i have to make an autopilot rc boat with a camera on it (relatively with good quaity video capture capabilities) to make a timelapse video. So my first question is which arduino can handle gps sensor data and the camera data and my second question is if a single transceiver can do all the work on the boat and if yes which one for long range? ( up to 5km)

Take a look on iforce2d site on youtube.
He has many long range data/video there.

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Hi,
Welcome to the forum.

Please read the post at the start of any forum , entitled "How to use this Forum".
OR
http://forum.arduino.cc/index.php/topic,148850.0.html.

rctestflight on YouTube is also worth looking at.

He has many autonomous vehicle projects.

Have you googled

autonomous rc boat

Tom... :slight_smile: