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Male
About
Location
Littleton, CO
About Me:
I'm a nerd and as such, I'm interested in robotics, electronics, information security, photography and Full Size Jeeps.
Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest
Primarily kindled by the Sparkfun AVC. I entered a ground vehicle in 2011 but was curious to play with UAVs.
Hometown:
Centennial, CO
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"@unnamed idea - OpenCV is a bit heavyweight for an embedded processor like a Cortex M4F."
"@Simon, that sounds really interesting. I'm guessing, yeah, we'd need to write some code to recognize specific markers unless there's some way to use FAST/FREAK to do it. "
"Thanks all for the support, everyone! Let me answer a few questions...
@Mark: Frame rate varies depending on what it's doing and what the resolution is. We'll get some more performance figures posted. We don't have a video out pin but we do have a…"
@Mark: Frame rate varies depending on what it's doing and what the resolution is. We'll get some more performance figures posted. We don't have a video out pin but we do have a…"
"@Montezuma: thanks for asking -- short summary:
You script it in Python.
It detects faces and objects as well as colors.
You can record movies, videos.
It's smaller than Pixy at only 1.8" x 1.4" and you can expand it with shields. We're working on…"
You script it in Python.
It detects faces and objects as well as colors.
You can record movies, videos.
It's smaller than Pixy at only 1.8" x 1.4" and you can expand it with shields. We're working on…"
"Awesome, thanks so much for the support you guys! We really appreciate it. And for all those that have retweeted and such, huge thanks to you for spreading the word."
Hey all, remember OpenMV Cam? It's the machine vision module that runs Python.Well, we finally launched it on Kickstarter http://bit.ly/openmvcam. It does color tracking, object tracking, records movies and photos, too. All scriptable with Python.…
"Hm, this is an old thread :) I decided to put these on the back burner for awhile. Some of the example client code is here: https://code.google.com/p/a2d/ I don't seem to have checked in the hardware design or firmware. :("
"have you considered using OpenMV Cam? I can get you one if you can help us beta test before the kickstarter."
"@Gary, yeah right there with you. I really want to play around with it. Well, hopefully somehow there will be a surge of interest in the final days. Who can say? :)"
IMUdino on Kickstarter -- a really tiny 10DOF IMU with Bluetooth. It was covered by Atmel blog.The Kickstarter has 3 days left.Surely there are UAV / Rover applications in addition to Minority Report style UI and Wearable applications,…
"If you want tips on how to get an Arduino to read Servo RC, you could look at our Jeep Rover Project's homebrew steering servo code: https://github.com/shimniok/diyrovers/tree/master/JeepServo"
"For what it's worth -- @Tom, @RoboBill -- our team, SHARC, was also using a Hemisphere industrial grade GPS on our robot "Troubled Child," possibly the same model (an A100) as 0x27 was the prior two years.
I think we can safely say that our GPS…"
I think we can safely say that our GPS…"
"While there's no way to spot a false trigger with only one trigger, I think the point RoboBill was making was that one could use multiple samples to eliminate false positives. Various filtering approaches could do it. Maybe a median filter. Or…"
"Good advice. Data Bus has survived the rain, quite a bit of it. My electronics are mounted above the battery / frame on a sheet of Lexan. I use an RC body as well. That turned out to be adequate to keep things reasonably dry. It's a stadium truck…"
"Ongoing discussion on hard- and soft-iron calibration:
http://diydrones.com/forum/topics/magnetometer-soft-and-hard-iron-c..."
http://diydrones.com/forum/topics/magnetometer-soft-and-hard-iron-c..."
"Sparkfun AVC 2014 Course Preview posted earlier today:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rgl8qSMnCg"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rgl8qSMnCg"
