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Anyone found the "Wii Camera" as a part?

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Hi all,

I was just wondering if anyone has found the wii camera as a part?  I found the original company manufacturer at one point, but I have a feeling that their contract with Nintendo means they will not sell their camera as a "part".  If I remember they had other models.  

It would be nice if there was a "very" inexpensive camera on the same lines as a wii, but even possibly skewed to 620 nm instead of IR - so that it would be matched with a common key-chain laser..

Ro-Bot-X Chumby Re-Born !

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After Ro-Bot-X's little chumby suffered a massive overdose of voltage, he's back up and running with MRL (headless)

Here he's boadcasting a very slow camera stream to my house (2500 miles away)

Yay !  Back from the dead !

It's not super stable video feed, but I have some ideas on that.. also we could try some different camera's too... 

Need Guru Help Regarding Micro-Controller + Wireless

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Hello !
What is the most inexpensive, yet stable robust and relatively fast micro-controller + wireless setup?

I have been asking this question to myself for way too long... Now, I'm curious of your experiences in the different flavors available..

In my specific situation talking back and forth to a computer or laptop would be the primary objective.

This is often referred to as STT (speech to text) and TTS (text to speech).  When I started with computers (eons ago) there were crude text to speech programs. … Read more
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QBO - Uses Dynamic Haar Training - much like Predator & Kinect Training

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Here is the 3rd example I've seen, (and I'm sure more to come) of dynamic Haar training and Bag Of Words association.  It seems the little bot is not being sold right now, but I see the drool from the sidelines

Full link here - http://thecorpora.com/blog/

I'm pretty close to getting dynamic Haar training in MRL... although I'll be using the Kinect or interactive selection vs stereo cameras to isolate the object for association.

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Alright - this is beautiful - All you CNC people will like this....

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Near Sci-Fi like in that you could imagine hundreds of them automated... cranking out parts, possibly replicating as a new life form on the Sahara :)   Theo Jansen would approve...

http://www.markuskayser.com/work/solarsinter/

 

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My Computer Found it's BellyButton

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Yeah, it doesn't look like much... but I'm excited.  I've been meaning to do this a while, just didn't have the time.  I'll be doing a variety of tests to see how it preforms.  It has several "Match" algorithms to play with (CV_TM_CCOEFF_NORMED, CV_TM_SQDIFF, etc) - and I think there are several normalization routines.

This match algorithm seems fairly fast @ 120 ms - Haar Face Detection takes longer...

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arduinoscope over network, multiple arduino boards, multiple instances, BORG!
This tutorial will be going over the Sensor Monitor Service.  The Sensor Monitor allows you to visualize and combine data from sensors.  In addition it … Read more