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jasmine1323
jasmine1323

Reputation: 11

Sending images from arduino to android over bluetooth

I want to hook a camera up to an arduino which will send images to an android over bluetooth. I don't mind a delay in image transfer (once it's not to large). I then will process the images on the android (probably with the OpenCV library, motion tracking). This is a pan/tilt camera set up, the arduino will tell two motors how to behave based on the the images. How can I send this data over bluetooth or other wireless means? What type of camera is best for this situation?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 6716

Answers (2)

zmo
zmo

Reputation: 24812

Simply said, no, I don't think you can use an arduino for that:

the problem you will encounter is that the image capturing library you may find added to the bluetooth (or wifi) library (and the whole network stack) will fill your arduino up! Remember that you have only 32k of flash to put everything in, it's less than an Atari 2600. So you'll need a bigger arduino (like the arduino mega) which is close to the price of a beaglebone or a rasppi.

So to sum up, same conclusion as the others: just use a bone or a rasppi.

Though, here's one hack though that could help you doing what you want:

it's a hack, because the arduino only copies the image over the eyefi, and the eyefi does not need to be handled by the arduino like a bluetooth/wifi shield.

Upvotes: 0

Emmanuel
Emmanuel

Reputation: 13223

Do you have to use an Arduino? I do not know if it will have the processing power needed for image processing. Have you looked into using a Raspberry Pi? You can install Java on it, and use the Pi4J library to access its GPIO. The people from Raspberry Pi recently created a camera module for easier integration with the main board.

Upvotes: 2

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