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OSD, object tracking and (possibly) optic flow on the cheap?

Posted by Ante Vukorepa on April 10, 2011 at 1:30pm
Ran across this today:

videoExperimenter_01.jpg


It's a dedicated video (PAL or NTSC) Arduino shield with passthrough capabilities. Nothing fancy, just a sync separator and some passive electronics. Obviously, it needs to be mated with an Arduino (additional one, alongside APM, of course), but it's plug and play and comes with a neatly put together library. Question is, can this + Arduino physically fit an average ArduCopter?

If so, it might be the ticket to beginner's quad computer vision experimentation (plus, you get an OSD generator extra ;) on the cheap ($50ish + camera).
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  • tshado May 20, 2011 at 2:32pm

    Hello Michael,

    Thanks for this news and the work done on this OSD + GPS.

    Quite late here in France but i will read in details your blog tomorrow

    I will give you my comments as i could be interested

    Best regards

    Jean-Claude

  • Michael Krumpus May 20, 2011 at 1:56pm
    I'm the maker of the VIdeo Experimenter, and after being contacted by numerous FPV enthusiasts, I did some OSD work with my GPS module.  I'm very interested in feedback about whether this might be useful to this community:  http://nootropicdesign.com/projectlab/2011/05/20/overlay-gps-on-video/
  • S.G. Sutter April 11, 2011 at 7:30am
    Wow, very cool!  I could see using something like this in a UGV for wildlife tracking.
  • DaveyWaveyBunsenBurner April 11, 2011 at 1:30am
    Very nice! And a very reasonable price..
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