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Unread 24-10-2016, 03:47
nardavin nardavin is offline
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Reliability of Pixy Camera?

Our team is considering purchasing a Pixy camera (link below) to hopefully use in next year's game. For the teams that have used a Pixy in the past, how reliable has it been? As it uses hue-based filtering, have any teams had problems tracking greyscale objects (such as the 2016 boulders)?

Also, after reading through the docs it looks like the get x, y locations are pixel-based. This seems like it may be an issue as the camera appears to have a fairly fish-eye lens (see photo linked below). Has this been an issue for any teams that do vision tracking by using vector-based calculations and moving by gryo angle rather than direct camera feedback?

Pixy: http://charmedlabs.com/default/pixy-cmucam5/
Fish-eye example: http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i2...ps1e87977b.jpg

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