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?

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0 shabaz over 9 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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0 shabaz over 9 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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