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How can I use cmucam5 by gopro camera?

Pixy Hardware
#1

hello guys;

How can I use cmucam5 by gopro camera? or other by high resolution camera?

Anybody did try before it?

thank you for answers!

#2

Hi Selcuk,

you’re wanting to use Pixy to control the motion of a GoPro or similar? Ben Heck did a project overview of an auto-tracking camera using Pixy, check out the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxlqawCnX3s&list=PLaVaA4k86r6quw8AmWDTz1h4wJ7S_b7qL&index=1

Cheers,
Jesse

#3

Hi Jesse;

Thank you for answered to my question and given to video link of Ben Heck.I’ll benefit a lot from him’s videos. Actually, I’m wondering how can I doing control of distant, remote objects (for example; 8-9 meters)? Pixy, is working if one objects will be remote from to camera? is it can detect? if it is not working about detect, How can I using good camera (for example gopro) with pixy?

Cheers,
Selcuk

#4

Ah, I understand. Pixy can detect faraway objects, as long as they’re large enough to form a 4x1 pixel image in the sensor. So it depends on the size of the object as well as the distance. To help, you could get a lens with a longer focal length. Like this: http://www.mindsensors.com/ev3-and-nxt/50-tele-lens-for-nxtcam-pixy

There is no way to use a remote camera to feed images to Pixy’s image sensor…