Check out the Pixy2, a smart camera with image recognition capabilities!
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The Pixy2 is a low cost yet powerful camera that is capable of object recognition, line tracking, and simple barcode reading. The device is the latest iteration of the Pixy Cam, a project built by Charmed Labs in conjunction with the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University.
With a variety of interfaces and lots of code libraries and samples, the Pixy2 can be used with an Arduino, Raspberry Pi, Beaglebone Black, or just about any computer, microcomputer, or microcontroller.
In this video, I will show you how the Pixy2 works, how to hook it up, and how to train it using software called PixyMon which runs on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X. I’ll then show you how to easily hook up your Pixy2 to an Arduino and run code to detect an object, lines, intersections, and simple barcodes.
Thanks to its onboard processor the coding for Pixy2 is very simple. It provides a very easy method of adding vision to your next Arduino or Raspberry Pi project.
Here is the table of contents for this video:
00:00 - Introduction
02:18 - Pixy2 Introduction
05:53 - Pixy2 Unboxing
08:02 - Using PixyMon
14:01 - Color Signature Training
20:32 - Arduino Hookup
21:48 - CCC Hello World Demo
27:44 - Line Tracking Intro
29:24 - Line Hello World Demo
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