Re: C-R-M: pretty cool hexapod video ...

On Sep 28, 8:17 am, Joe Strout <j...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In article <xNydnUM_2vz-l2DbnZ2dnUVZ8trin...@xxxxxx>,

Coyoteboy <coyotebo...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
pogo wrote:
Pretty cool hexapod face tracking video. Very slick!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oXuSXCKJeY

Now /that/ is how robots should behave - that is true fluid biological
immitation - im more than impressed. If it walked id be more amazed, but
it is the most impressive hex that ive seen i think.

Sheesh, between that and <http://beatbots.blip.tv/>, I'm really starting
to feel like my robots are lame because they don't track faces.




If you got a CMUcam or AVRcam or similar device, you could probably
get your bot acting very similar to this right now, cueing in on a
colored ball rather than a face. Get it to track back and forth, and
then jump backwards when the size of the object increases quickly,
etc.




I know that OpenCV has face-tracking stuff... I just need to figure out
how to cram some hardware that can run OpenCV into something
robot-sized. (Or, use an external computer, which is probably what the
hexapod is doing.)

Any thoughts on the smallest/cheapest computer board that could run
OpenCV?

Best,
- Joe

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