OV7670 camera

[toserfal]

Hello,
I'm a High School Teacher and I've done a few robots with Picaxe. I would like to know if it's possible to connect a OV7670 camera to the robot, and if somebody has information about how to do it.

Thank you very much in advance

Tomas

 

[rossko57]

I'm sure you can connect it to some robot, but the important thing would be what you are expecting to do with the image data? A Picaxe would not be suitable for image capture or processing.

 

[Buzby]

Those serial cameras need far more processing power than a PICAXE can provide, so that idea is a non-starter.

However, somewhere on the net ( maybe even in this forum ) there is a camera which is ideal for robots, and easily interfaces to PICAXE.

The camera contains a processor running on-board image recognition, and the serial line just provides simple X,Y co-ordinates of the target objects it can currently see. It is pre-programmed to recognise a few colours and shapes, such as 'green ball', 'yellow square', etc.

A PICAXE controlled robot could easily process this co-ordinate based information, and perform logic like 'Turn Left until Green Ball in centre of view'.

This is a piece of kit I'd like to try, but I can't find the link !. ( Had major browser crash, and lost all bookmarks and history !. )

If anyone knows of this camera I'd be grateful for a link.

Cheers,

Buzby

 

[JimPerry]

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/254449872/pixy-cmucam5-a-fast-easy-to-use-vision-sensor

and available in UK from http://thepihut.com/products/pixy-1-0-vision-sensor-for-the-arduino

 

[Buzby]

Hi Jim,

Thanks for that, it's exactly what I was looking for.

Merry Christmas,

Buzby

 

[RonnS]

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/254449872/pixy-cmucam5-a-fast-easy-to-use-vision-sensor

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thats great , i like it and i need it.. Santa Help !!!!

71 Euro in Germany...

Ron

 

[toserfal]

Thank you very much guys.
Merry Christmas for you all