Cheap Head Tracking
I did a very simple lasr cut PVC frame where you can place your infrared LEDS.
It’s a simple 3 point model cap as the lego one:
You just need:
- wires
- 1 switch
- 2 AA batteries
- 3 IrLEDS (I used 100mA ones)
- any support (I used mine)
If you are lazy to make one you can buy one from my website:
To find other distributors go here:
April 14th, 2009 at 8:31 pm
[...] [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. [...]