- Thu May 31, 2012 8:53 pm
#145232
Hello,
This my attempt at discussing an idea I have and hoping that you will engage in the discussion and give some valuable advice and feedback.
There is lot of interest in the community for using vision in their projects. There has been lot of enthusiasm and activity with VGA CMOS sensor available right here at Sparkfun. But so far there appears to be no vision module that is ready out of the box for some standard application, like color tracking. The closest product I could find was AvrCam (http://www.jrobot.net/Projects/AVRcam.html), but the original developer is no longer selling the product.
The CMUCam4 (http://www.cmucam.org/projects/cmucam4) is interesting, though I am not aware how ready it is out of the box. Plus it is more than $125 and right now available only through distributors from Europe.
With recent release of STM32F4 microcontroller it has become easier than ever to interface with CMOS sensor. The STM32F4 has hardware peripheral to interface with image sensors. This is an exciting development. We have the power of DSP processor with floating point and necessary peripherals to easily interface with external world, like a regular microcontroller.
Would a open source project to develop a low cost vision module based on STM32F4 be of interest to you?
What kind of features and interface options would you like?
I am excited and enthusiastic about this project. Is anybody else out there that is interested as well?
Cheers
Edit:
Few slides about the project: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/ ... UN_LA/edit
This my attempt at discussing an idea I have and hoping that you will engage in the discussion and give some valuable advice and feedback.
There is lot of interest in the community for using vision in their projects. There has been lot of enthusiasm and activity with VGA CMOS sensor available right here at Sparkfun. But so far there appears to be no vision module that is ready out of the box for some standard application, like color tracking. The closest product I could find was AvrCam (http://www.jrobot.net/Projects/AVRcam.html), but the original developer is no longer selling the product.
The CMUCam4 (http://www.cmucam.org/projects/cmucam4) is interesting, though I am not aware how ready it is out of the box. Plus it is more than $125 and right now available only through distributors from Europe.
With recent release of STM32F4 microcontroller it has become easier than ever to interface with CMOS sensor. The STM32F4 has hardware peripheral to interface with image sensors. This is an exciting development. We have the power of DSP processor with floating point and necessary peripherals to easily interface with external world, like a regular microcontroller.
Would a open source project to develop a low cost vision module based on STM32F4 be of interest to you?
What kind of features and interface options would you like?
I am excited and enthusiastic about this project. Is anybody else out there that is interested as well?
Cheers
Edit:
Few slides about the project: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/ ... UN_LA/edit
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