Wii Camera and Arduino
I needed fast infrared blob tracking for TIME IS THE SOUL OF THINGS
so i reproduced a hack from this awesome guy:
http://www.bajdi.com/fun-sensor-the-wiicamera/Â
The Wii Camera module is a so called motion flow sensor. Its made of a small 64x64 pixel lcd array and designed specially for the task of keeping track on small infrared dots. It’s doing the processing onboard and outperforms every camera based system in means of latency and sample rate by far.
It can keep track of up to 4 blobs, gives X and Y position (0-1024) and size for each over SPI to an arduino, and from there over serial in my 3D software with a few milliseconds latency at 100 hz.
The drawback is, it only works up to a distance of 5 meters, due to the tiny lens i guess. This made it unuseable for that specific project, but i already got something in mind for it.
