Eyes for Hexy

Hexy Questions, Problems and Suggestions
#1

I know it was touched on before in a thread quite some time ago, but I thought I would ask if there were any possibility of finding a camera module that could work alongside the servotor in hexy to let us get some actual eyes on him. Not that I don’t love this eyes that are actually ears, but streaming video back from the little guy would be beyond awesome.
I don’t claim to have any great knowledge of arduino or robotics, this is my first expedition into both worlds, so I thought I’d ask here after realising I didn’t really have much of an idea what I should be looking for on the googles.

Any info would be greatly appreciated

#2

The basics of it is: Arduino isn’t a powerful enough system for handling this much information. Now if you wanted to use, say, a raspberry pi, there’s some possibility there.

We’re currently playing with a pi and a ov7670 camera (you can find them cheap on ebay).

#3

Oh well, I guess it’s time to break out the duct tape and webcam :smiley:

#4

Hi. I just ordered a hexy. And I was curious if anyone had ever successfully setup a camera with this?
I’ve played around with a rasperry pi and a few other microcontrollers, so it would be interesting to try to get something like this working. I’ve not tried a camera module with a pi yet. sounds interesting though.

#5

Haven’t seen anyone use a camera yet, but there’s no reason it wouldn’t work.

#6

Understood. Do you have any suggestions on using a pi with the hexy?
Thanks.

#7

I got a webcam working with linux on my hexy for some autonomous vision tasks I was trying to perform. You can read about it here.

If nothing else you could grab the code I wrote to stream the webcam image to a browser on the network