with this Pan/Tilt/Zoom platform + a board camera + micro servo + Arduino Uno, I can build a rotated camera on a robot controlled by Arduino?
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Yes you can but be aware that you need two servos. The bracket uses the servos to connect the pieces together. The RioRand 2 Pcs TowerPro SG90 9G micro small servo comes with two servos is well priced and worked fine for me. I should point out I didn't mount a camera just an ultrasonic sensor.
856854
You can indeed, and I have done exactly that (except controlled by an IOIO board). I used Towerpro SG92R servos. The SG90 models mentioned below turn in jerky little steps, the SG92R turns smoothly. But be warned, this is not a strong setup and it will not carry much weight. The 'pan' mechanism is supported on the shaft of the lower servo motor. That's literally all the support there is. I have heard of people cutting a small section of PVC tubing and gluing it onto the base to make something the body of the motor can rest on as it turns.
856855
I found it very difficult to assemble. There are no instructions. In truth I destroyed it trying to figure out how to do it. Adafruit sells one completely assembled. if you want to avoid the hassle. As far as it working with an Arduino, it should be no problem. I have another pan n' tilt with the same design and the Arduino can control it quite easily..
1241492
I think you're asking if it's possible to rotate the camera for vertical shots, the answer is yes.
672758
yes to can flip and rotate the image, but it the camera has a big in the PTZ arrow's are mixed up after you do that.
1481446
No you can't. Camera is static. You can add additional equipment down the road like a gimbal to get it to do what you want. That's what I did.
1440887
The unit I have can rotate, blink, or be fixed. It's a pretty neat little product. Make sure the objects are what you what though. I don't remember being able to select the image being projected.
217792
Sort of. You can position it so that the mount would be connected to the underside of an overhang, but the camera would be 90 degrees off. The camera can rotate around the base 360 degrees, and then the camera can tilt maybe 60 degrees ,so it probably will do what you want in some form or another. This isn't a big deal - I think there's a software option to spin the image, and most security video recorders have the ability to do that as well. But you'll "lose" (or gain, depending on what you are pointed at) a few pixels because the rectangle of view will be 90 degrees out of phase. So I'd say "Yes, you can" with a minor caveat.
208992
Nope. Any motion sensing would have to be done in the software. Most modern systems do it this way, these days. Keeps the cost down on the camera, anyway.
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I beleive this would be an option, in my application I was able to connect remotely to my camera and control and observe as well as have the camera send via email or text as many as 6 images when motion was sensed. I used this successfully in my application and was very pleased with its reliabilty. Image quality was excellent and send/receive times were in the area of 10 seconds.
1898334
Yes, as the other two replied, you'd have tape or clamp it to the side or top-the camera works very well however you'd also have to play with the orientation.
941935
Yes, I know you can use the "Dropcam" camera to be connected to the smartthings hub wirelessly. You can view and record video remotely from your smartphone.
1108446
Hi Jerome... I don't believe you can schedule a time for Pan, Tilt or Zoom, I guess that would be considered "patrolling", or moving to a particular preset position at a scheduled time. Of course you do know you can schedule the camera to send motion detected alerts with snapshots of the image(s) that caused the alert to an email address. You can set scheduled times that you want your camera to detect and send alerts. I have no yet installed my Foscam FI9828W yet, I am waiting for the weather and temperature improve. Although I have allready programmed the camera, I have not spent a lot of time playing with it.
1180081
Yes you can, it can be found online. Here's a much better translated version for virtually the same system. http://www.roboticstech.com/RTI%20Traq%20103.pdf
1680847
Yes I can , buy lately have come many better remote video cameras out . Try any 1.3 MegaPixel Network Camera with a NVR.
1646940
Thanks! This looks great for the Mac, but a PC version (or parallel) would be great. Basically I'm looking for a timed way for a camera to come on a specific hour, and record until another hour, and then rotate the video files. Thoughts?
1924310
It should work, though it might be tough to keep things centered if your mount is not motorized. One thing to keep in mind is that the image quality of this camera is not very good. It works well on the Moon, but that is about it. If you can find a used one it would be a much better value. This camera is not worth $100, maybe $30-$40.
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You could use the Belkin video grabber to input the video signal from the camera only. You would need a separate controller for the pan and tilt function. There are PCI PTZ add-on cards for computers that have both a RS-485 and RS-232 controller on them, but they seem to be in the $80-90 range so you could have a night owl DVR for that if you shopped hard enough. There are also joysticks that you can buy for RS-232 to control it, but none of this is really cost effective over just getting a separate DVR that will do everything you want and allow you to see it/control it from your smartphone.
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I just bought it to put something together, but I have seem a lot of Youtube videos show this same set being use and operated by Arduino. So I Know it can be done.