I have a rover 5 that I have mounted a pan/tilt system to. I would like some guidance on mounting a Wifi camera on it to send the video to my tablet. I have looked at mounting something like a gopro camera or I do have a wifi FPV camera from a drone that I also could use. Range for now only needs to be in the 20 feet. Am I going the right way or would there be a better way to do this? Need be nothing fancy
What has this to do with an Arduino?
The rover 5 and pan/tilt are being run by the Arduino, I was hoping at a later date to use the camera to control the Arduino. Not sure if I'm wording this right. But trying to do things in baby steps.
Baby steps are good.
The arduino is good at controlling pan/tilt.
A camera is good at taking pictures.
I am missing something where the camera will control the arduino.
You should consider writing an application for your tablet that adds controls (up,down,right,left) and video or create an Android service that sends Bluetooth positioning to Arduino as some drone programs do as a second option.
Let me try to get this right. I was looking on Sparkfun at cameras but it showed using a Raspberry. I was trying to get a simple way to video and send it to my tablet and then down the road using my Arduino to add GPS and maybe a Wifi remote control all running with my Arduino. Or maybe I'm just way over my head. I was looking at the Sparkfun Wifi 2 joystick using xbee but that is still away down the road for me.
As for writing my own application, nope not any time soon. It took me long time to get the hang of Blink with out delay and using millis() .LOL Baby steps
chickenhawk:
Let me try to get this right. I was looking on Sparkfun at cameras but it showed using a Raspberry. I was trying to get a simple way to video and send it to my tablet and then down the road using my Arduino to add GPS and maybe a Wifi remote control all running with my Arduino. Or maybe I'm just way over my head. I was looking at the Sparkfun Wifi 2 joystick using xbee but that is still away down the road for me.As for writing my own application, nope not any time soon. It took me long time to get the hang of Blink with out delay and using millis() .LOL Baby steps
An Arduino can do GPS, WiFi, joysticks, and send it to a phone/tablet. It cannot do any kind of realtime video, it can barely hold a single 300x200 1-bit image.
So while your project might eventually use an Arduino the aspect you are asking about doesn’t use it.
This is an Arduino forum and while we are happy to discuss the use of an Arduino in your project, this baby step has nothing to do with an Arduino.