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Pixy Camera for Lego Mindstorms - RobotC

Is there any way of integrating the Pixy Camera into a Lego Mindstorms Ev3 without having to use either the EV3 programming language or the PixyMon.

we want to develop our own face recognition algorithms in C/C++; and I want to be able to use the Pixy Camera to capture images in the first instance.

The RobotC language provides a neat motors/sensors configuration tool - which maps neatly to the EV3 i/p and o/p ports. I’d like to be able to use this. But if not, then how can I configure the ports myself in C ?

There doesn’t seem to be much info on this around. I’ve found a forum post which says that it should be easy to convert the Ev3 block to RobotC -but I don’t want this 'cos the EV3 blocks rely on PixyMOn, they don’t allow you to train your own algorithms.

If all else fails, does anyone know to automatically access pixymon so the learning process can be automated ?

M

Hello Margaret,
We have Firmware SDK group here:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/pixy_firmware_sdk

You can request a membership if you like.

Hope this helps!

Edward

There is a way to link it directly through existing RobotC drivers. You need a PixyAdapter from mind sensors (http://www.mindsensors.com/ev3-and-nxt/35-pixy-adapter). Attach that to your pixy and plug it in to the ev3. Then, it can be programmed just like a NXTCAM. If you need help finding the drivers for the NXTCAM, let me know, and I’ll be glad to help.