Arduino camera opencv how to#
Arduino camera opencv install#

Since the Arduino is capable of providing enough power for two servos, there's not much to the assemble. Now that the camera jig is set up we need to assemble the electronics. To find the mid-point of the pan/tilt range of motion just manually move the bracket from side to side, and up and down and approximate the center position for each axis. I wanted the camera to have the widest range of motion possible when tracking, so I found the mid-point of the pan and tilt angles, and then mounted my camera so that the lens was facing forward. Don't be afraid of a little Duct Tape! One thing to check before mounting the camera to the bracket, though, is the range of motion of the pan/tilt. If you don't have the same webcam you'll have to find your own way to mount the webcam to the pan/tilt bracket. After making the holes bigger I just mounted both swivels to one edge of the bracket, and then with a little bit of wiggling I got the webcam back onto the swivels. Unfortunately the screws were just a tad too big to fit through the holes in the swivel, so I enlarged them a bit with a drill press. I found some small screws to mount the swivel to the bracket. Since there are a ton of cut-outs in the pan/tilt bracket it wasn't too difficult.

Arduino camera opencv how to#

The only thing left was to figure out how to mount the swivels onto the bracket in a fashion that would allow the camera to be put back onto the swivels. After taking out a handful of screws, and pulling apart some rather reluctant plastic, I was lucky to find that there were some small metal swivels that I could mount the camera with. I figured that the camera had to be mounted onto it's bracket somehow, so if I could take it out of the current bracket it might make it easier to mount to the pan/tilt bracket. It came on this little mounting swivel so that you can hang it from the top of a monitor. I'm using a Logitech Webcam that we lying around the office. Once the Pan/Tilt Bracket has been assembled we need to find a way to mount the webcam onto the bracket.

Arduino camera opencv install#

This will show you how to put the bracket together and install the servos for controlling the bracket's orientation.

Start by putting the Pan/Tilt Bracket together using the assembly guide from the product page. There are several pieces for this project that need to be assembled. Arduino Uno (or other 5V Arduino Compatible board).A video of the final product illustrates the concept a little better than I can explain it. In this tutorial we're going to look at how to use OpenCV, a real time computer vision library, with Processing, Arduino, a webcam and a pan/tilt bracket to create a video that will keep a persons face in the middle of the frame as they walk around the room. Face Tracking with a Pan/Tilt Servo Bracket