Easy camera tracking with a quadrocopter

January 4, 2012 By 10 Comments

[DJ Sures] has been pulling all-nighters lately to get his AR Drone Parrot build off the ground. Now that it’s up and flying around, he managed to get it to follow objects around the room using on board cameras.

For the build, [DJ Sures] used the AR Drone ’flying video game’ quadrocopter. This toy has two on board cameras that … Read the rest

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Modded Wall-E becomes a real robot

July 22, 2011 By 20 Comments

[DJ Sures] got his hands on a plastic Wall-E toy and decided to build a robot that includes a camera, voice recognition, and object tracking. The result is adorable so we’re putting this video before the break:

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