Hey guys, I wanted to show you the latest progress on my hexapod. I am using the Pixy Cam to detect a pink object, in this case a pen cap, and move the body accordingly. All the PS2 controller functions work exactly as you’d expect; to enter tracking mode I press the triangle button. I am using a micro atmega 328 to connect and calculate the pan/tilt error of the object we are interested in. The height of the object is also obtained and used to determine how far away the object is.
This is only possible because I use the same object each time; for a different object the rules for moving forward and backward would need to be updated. The surface I was filming on could have been better, sometime soon I will re-shoot the video. Let me know if there are any details you want to know.
You’re slowly giving it a “personality” and we encourage you to keep going!
Perhaps add the shapes to baseball caps so it “likes” and “dislikes” certain people
Add the occasional “shake” or “grooming” subroutine and you have a toy that every kid wants!
I am building an Lynxmotion Phoenix hexapod with Pixy 5. Everything working fine on the rover I built before.
But I don’t know how to interact Pixy with hexapod yet.
I am using BotBoarduino, SSC-32U and CMUCAM 5 or can also use Arduino Mega with I/O shild V2.
Is it possible to get a link to your code? I can try to adapt it for my hexapod.
Thanks,
Yves
