CENTENNIAL, Colo. -- What Can You Do With OpenMV?
Detect a face when someone is standing at your front door, take their photo, ring the doorbell automatically;
Find a unique object on your robot's charging station;
Use color detection to sort M&M's detect and collect colored balls;
Detect a landing zone object for your quadcopter/hobby UAV;
Record video from your UAV, Rover, Kite;
Take time lapse photos for security, science, and more;
Control Pan/Tilt servos to create an object tracker or foam dart sentry gun;
Compete with an edge in robotics competitions like FIRST Robotics Competition (http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprograms/frc), Sparkfun AVC (http://avc.sparkfun.com/), and others;
Teach and learn machine vision concepts;
Kickstarter & Press Kit
OpenMV Cam is now on kickstarter: http://bit.ly/openmvcam (http://bit.ly/openmvcam)
Reward Tiers: $49 early believers (limit 100) and $55 super supporters get one (1) OpenMV Cam reward, $239 big time backers get five (5) OpenMV Cams as their reward.
High resolution photos available: http://openmvcam.com/OpenMVPressKit.zip
Specifications At A Glance
180MHz ARM Microprocessor from STM (STM32F427)
2MP JPEG Camera sensor
Supports I2C, SPI, or Serial protocols
M12 Lens mount, interchangeable lenses
MicroSD card slot for storing photos, videos, loading scripts, files
Onboard Infrared LEDs for illumination
About Bot Thoughts LLC: Bot Thoughts is a startup company in Centennial, Colorado outfitting electronics hobbyists with the solutions they need to be creative through a storefront on Tindie.com. The company was founded by Michael Shimniok, author of the Bot Thoughts Blog.
Michael Shimniok has been building autonomous robots for several years. Most recently he led the team that converted his 1986 Jeep Grand Wagoneer, Troubled Child, into a self-driving vehicle that won the 2014 Sparkfun AVC. Machine vision became a passion after experimenting with a vintage Game Boy camera on his first competition robot. He joined the OpenMV Cam project to raise the bar on hobby robotics.
Ibrahim Abdelkader is the creator of OpenMV Cam and a maker and long time programmer with multiple CS degrees. Intrigued with machines that can see, and spurred by disappointment in currently available machine vision systems, he created OpenMV Cam to be affordable and as easily integrated as other sensors. The project is all open source because he wants to give back to the open source and maker communities.
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