Anyone tested the Pixy (CMUcam5) camera?

I keep seeing advertisements for this "learning" camera but some of the reviews make it sound like it is more hype then actual value. Anyone had a chance to test this with RPi?

0 Former Member over 10 years ago

IT looks like the cmucam.org website has a lot of information. Check
http://cmucam.org/projects/cmucam5/wiki/Hooking_up_Pixy_to_a_Raspberry_Pi

I haven't tried it yet but I plan to soon.

Dave
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0 shabaz over 10 years ago

It is underpowered compared to what the RPI and BeagleBone Black can do so if you want machine vision with these platforms you could use OpenCV instead. I think perhaps this product's real use is for educational projects with the Arduino (which doesn't have the resources for machine vision).
You're paying for convenience and a simple API basically by off-boarding the processing.
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