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Blog #4: Pre-Processing Stage

Former Member

An Image frame contains a lot of information ; color for each pixel , edges of every object, objects inside the field of view.Sequence of these images (which is a video) gives a temporal information of all the above characteristics which is also very...
- 28 Sep 2015
Blog #3: Image Acquisition

Former Member

In any Computer Vision project, 'Image Acquisition' is considered as a very important stage. To many it sounds like a step which is the easiest, but if you don't give good attention to the details it can create lot of troubles later.&nbsp...
- 28 Sep 2015
Blog #2: Flow Diagram

Former Member

To detect the raised hands, I need to go through a sequence of steps which is shown the the following flow diagram. I'll go over each of them in detail in next blogs. Overall, the steps are in following order1. Image Acquisition2. Pre-...
- 28 Sep 2015
Teacher's Pet Students' Robotics Challenge: Attendance Automator—Blog Entry 7: Cameras

spencerjames

TL;DR: This is a summary of my progress so far (to be continued) on getting the Raspberry Pi NoIR camera to work for thermography. For this initial setup, I’m following the directions from Raspberry Pi Org: https://www.raspberrypi.or...
- 23 Sep 2015
Teacher's Pet Students' Robotics Challenge: Attendance Automator—Blog Entry 6: Startup

spencerjames

TL;DR: The Raspberry Pi 2 has an A/V jack in addition to HDMI, who knew?! Here’s my experience getting started (Spoiler: It worked - eventually). Oddly enough, one of the things delaying me most about getting started on this project ...
- 23 Sep 2015
Teacher's Pet Students' Robotics Challenge: Attendance Automator—Blog Entry 5: Design Concept

spencerjames

TL;DR: In order to take attendance, I propose we install networked Microsoft Kinect’s (essentially) in every classroom and keep count of students w/o biometric information or stored photography. To review, my goal with this project is to a...
- 23 Sep 2015
Teacher's Pet Students' Robotics Challenge: Attendance Automator—Blog Entry 4: Unboxing!

spencerjames

TL;DR: The kits arrived… months ago… and this was my first opportunity to explore the components! Let’s see what we’ve got to work with! [Spoiler: It's awesome!]This is the entry where I will finally present the contents of the Rasp...
- 23 Sep 2015
Final Post... Failure

adnathanail

players.brightcove.net/.../index.html*Edit* Here's a picture of the final code and attatched is the file. So to reiterate what I said in the video. I think it's either the human error in my measuring of the robots movement in order to ca...
- 13 Sep 2015
Moving forward with the project (And turning)

adnathanail

players.brightcove.net/.../index.html This video showed the turning and moving in action and below I'll explain the code. This code is to test the turning function.Line 1 clears the workspace.Line 2 defines "a" as the connecte...
- 13 Sep 2015
Virtual Eye System -- Post #7 -- Tracking an object using Pan & Tilt module.

nikhil22

Hi folks!!In my previous blog post, we've seen the basics of object detection and tracking.....both by color and also edge detection. In order to understand what I'm going to convey through this blog post, I would like you to first make yours...
- 13 Sep 2015
Virtual Eye System -- Post #6 -- Object detection (Color & Edge) and Tracking.

nikhil22

Hi folks!!In the previous blog post, we've seen the basics of getting started with Pi cam like taking snapshots and videos among other things like changing various parameters of the Pi cam. In order to understand this post, please have a glance a...
- 9 Sep 2015
Book Carrying Robot #8 Trials and future development

mohanedessam

I described all aspects of my software and hardware design in my previous post. in this post I will just show some of my trials, comment on them, and suggest possible future development.the path is made to be a bit noisy (not so straight) to sho...
- 8 Sep 2015
Book Carrying Robot #7 Practical considerations and debugging

mohanedessam

After I showed my software design in this post, my hardware design in this post, and that I got some output in this post.I started to test my robot on actual tasks, that's when I figured out some bugs in my code, also I had to change some paramet...
- 8 Sep 2015
Teacher’s Pet Students’ Robotics Challenge: Attendance Automator — Blog Entry 3: Background

spencerjames

TL;DR: Chronic Absenteeism is a problem for many communities, without a clear solution. One important strategy requires the collection of accurate data. This too is a challenge for multi-classroom schools and constant monitoring sit...
- 8 Sep 2015
Book Carrying Robot #6 GPIO Motor control circuit schematics

mohanedessam

after I explained about the software part of my design in my previous post, I would like to describe an important yet very simple interface circuit that I use to control my motors.The circuit schematic is shown in this image: the GPIO pins...
- 7 Sep 2015
Rice Krispies Loader: The Ultimate Teacher's Pet Robot

kitfud

www.youtube.com/watch This robotic arm/line following robot is the conclusion to my summer project for the "Teacher's pet- educators road test." Believe me, this effort to create something original with a Parallax Robot and MATLAB/S...
- 7 Sep 2015
Book Carrying Robot #5 How to setup MATLAB and Simulink to run a standalone Image Processing script on Raspberry PI using Raspberry PI Camera

mohanedessam

I showed in my previous post that I was able to run a standalone user defined MATLAB script on Raspberry PI, that can take images from Raspberry PI Camera and control two motors using GPIO pins. In this Post I will explain how to this, so please...
- 5 Sep 2015
Shedule & Homework Robot - Postludium (part #8)

yuritikhonov

Good day comrades! Today I want to present to you the final article of the series. As you probably remember, the last time I discovered a critical flaw in my Arduino Due - the DAC broke down. It is sad of course, but is that a reason to stop? Of...
- 4 Sep 2015
Virtual Eye System -- Post #5 -- Pi cam basics

nikhil22

Hi Folks!!In the previous blog post, we have seen how to program the raspi and arduino to get the analog output of distance sensor converted to a physical distance value. As a continuation of our project let us get some insights in to how to work wit...
- 4 Sep 2015
BOT Setup

mcb1

Teachers Pet ... Robotics Challenge http://www.element14.com/community/roadTests/1417 Teachers Pet ChallengersTeacher's Pet Students' Robotics Challenge FinalistsIntroductionTeachers Pet Students Robotics Challenge .. Introduc...
- 3 Sep 2015
Assemble BOE

mcb1

MarkTeachers Pet ... Robotics Challenge http://www.element14.com/community/roadTests/1417 Teachers Pet ChallengersTeacher's Pet Students' Robotics Challenge FinalistsIntroductionTeachers Pet Students Robotics Challenge .. Intr...
- 2 Sep 2015
If YOU were the teacher's pet you would know that, #4

Former Member

players.brightcove.net/.../index.html it a lot more fun to watch than to read, but please Find below the summary of the main points in the 18 minute video.We first should define the components we are going to use.So how this is working well :-&n...
- 27 Aug 2015
Exercise sheet sorter machine. Part7. Putting the machine to the test. Final post ?

Anonymous-237891

After completing the build I went and tweaked the code to make the damn thing work. For the processing of the image to be as fast as possible I reduce the size of the image captured to 480by320 at 60 fps.It is fast enough to sometimes get twice ...
- 25 Aug 2015
Exercise sheet sorter machine. Part6. Integrating paper feed and image processing.

Anonymous-237891

Hi, Today I embraced the little bit of free time to get to work on my sheet sorter machine. The goal was to embed the camera and the raspberry onto the paper feeding assembly. So I went and started making holes and screwing down things.Then I ne...
- 25 Aug 2015
This is actually the build! Sorry for the incorrect ordering :-)

adnathanail

Hi all, I've just realised that I never posted anything about building the robot so here is a little video of it players.brightcove.net/.../index.html Two more posts coming soon...How the robot moves forwards and turnsThe final bui...
- 24 Aug 2015