Controlling spykee via web cam using your fingers
posted Apr 14th 2009 12:30pm by Caleb Kraftfiled under: classic hacks, pcs hacks, robots hacks
[epokh] sent in this cool project where he wrote some custom code to control the Spykee robot using gestures. He filters out everything but green through his web cam, then wraps his fingers in green tape. He then runs a series of filters to clean it up a little bit. The resulting “blobs” are tracked and converted to motor commands. You can see the setup in action in the video after the break. This guy might look familiar, as we posted a super quick head tracking rig he did with legos recently. Some of you mentioned, in the comments, that the legos were a waste, you’ll find that he thought so too, and ended up fabbing a simple rig to take the place of the legos.
That video shows absolutely nothing other than the fact he can’t smile on camera, why use that one in the article when the other two exist and show a little of what he’s doing?
Posted at 4:27 pm on Apr 14th, 2009 by cynic