• Question: Can you make a robot with a camera

    Asked by 964heaq27 to Ted on 9 Mar 2019.
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      Ted Burke answered on 9 Mar 2019:

      Yes, absolutely! Lots of robots use “machine vision” to detect what’s going on around them and control what they do. That just means that they have one or more cameras and software running on a computer to analyse what the camera sees and decide what the robot should do. One relatively low-cost way to do this is using a Raspberry Pi computer with the USB power pack for a battery. The Raspberry Pi has a specially designed camera module that you can plug into it to let it see what’s going on around it. To program the Raspberry Pi to analyse the video signal, you can use a software library called OpenCV – it can be programmed with Python or other programming languages.

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