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I am new in Arduino and still do't know what to do. Like what kind of Arduino to use on my project (which is Sensitive CCTV that allows remote connection and low power costs) and how to start learning the tricks. Please guide me. I need to learn this for my CAPSTONE due on December. All kinds of help is appreciated.

  • Divina, you need to write a list of the jobs you expect the Arduino to do, then you can match these up with the capabilities of the CPU and the add on boards.

  • Hey, I'm a newbie too. Maybe we can learn together. Could you please elaborate on what exactly your Aim is? image

  • in reply to Former Member

    well, you say you want to "allows remote connection and low power costs". You need to describe exactly what you mean as a list of functions. For example you might:

    • Turn on the CCTV at 9.00am and off at 04:00 pm
    • Have the times programmable by the operator.
    • Switch the CCTV output between 2 recorders every 2 hours

     

    I'm making up my own ideas, you need to write down yours.

  • in reply to peterjcs23

    Yes, I want to make my cctv to start recording footage when it detects movement. But it's running 24 hrs in idle when there are no movements. I mean is when the screen is empty and don't capture anything.

  • in reply to Former Member

    That's great, nice to have your acquaintance. Let's learn together.

     

    Yes, I would like to make a CCTV surveillance camera with

    1) motion sensor that activates the recording capability when the normal scene changes or there are movement captured on the camera.

    2) accessible remotely via android or any device.

    3) low power cost

    4) can send notification via email and sms

    5) low cost of implementation because of tight budget.

     

    Thank you for the help in advance.

  • in reply to Former Member

    Hello Divina,

     

    I think that the remote accessibility maybe better and simplified in a lot of aspects if you orient your low budget to a Raspberry PI + Camera. Using Arduino you should consider and external camera, the problems to share the camera feed (and Arduino is not the better solution, IMO it is not the solution at all) and also some problems with the remote connection.

     

    I have developed a board (that is compatible with Ardui, ChipKit and Raspberry PI) to control movement, camera features in the case of an external camera and more. Anyway if you consider the extra parts that you should add to the Arduino board respect the few components that you need with the RaspberryPI probably the budget is just 10% less with the Arduino. Maybe we should make a more precise amount calculation but the difference is almost meaningless. With the advantage that the Raspberry PI opens the door to a wider horizon on both programming possibilities (from Python to C+, to graphic programming and more) and better hardware knowledge. Instead if you need only to control the motion parts with the microcontroller and use an external camera Arduino maybe perfect for the scope too.

     

    Enrico

  • in reply to balearicdynamics

    Thank you for enlightening me with that statement. I think I need to re-document my proposal and try to change my hardware. May I know where can I learn the Raspberry PI and what are the necessary materials to do that? Thank you again.

  • in reply to balearicdynamics

    Hello Enrico,

       I'm also a newbie and I am struggling with developing a sketch that can read and write data from 2 or more accelerometers (the MMA7361 to be precise) connected to an  Arduino DUE, in BURST mode to be stored on an SD card temporarily to reduce any effect caused by latency. I have surfed the web for any available sketch to no avail.

    Do help if you can. Thankyou.