Hello, I'm thinking of making an arduino soccer robot, and I'm trying to think of different ways to track the ball. I know I could use opencv to find where the ball is, but I want to use that as a last resort since it's complicated (at least for me). Do you guys know of any alternatives? Thanks!
It is complicated, especially trying to use openCV, which won't run on most Arduinos.
Yeah, if I can't figure anything else out I'm going to try opencv on a raspberry pi. But there's got to be another way. Wait, I think I got it! Would it work if I put a bunch of ir leds in the ball and used an ir sensor on the arduino? Any cons? Thanks
Would these sensors : http://www.ebay.com/itm/10x-IR-Receiver-Infrared-Module-38KHz-VS1838B-VS1838-Arduino-Remote-10pcs-T18-/151978175017?hash=item23629aea29:g:cysAAOSwFNZWuXU6
be able to pick up on these ir leds?
Hi,
quentinthornton:
Yeah, if I can't figure anything else out I'm going to try opencv on a raspberry pi. But there's got to be another way. Wait, I think I got it! Would it work if I put a bunch of ir leds in the ball and used an ir sensor on the arduino? Any cons? Thanks
Like this;
Lookup RoboCup in google.
Tom... 
PS In a previous life one of my jobs for the company that made this model was to assemble them, by hand.
The PCBs were already populated but two PCBs, battery and the two half hemispheres were hand assembled.
Ah those were the days, my neuropathy wouldn't allow it now...