I love the concept of these computer controlled eyes, I think this technique would be great at Halloween and Christmas. Have a full size figure in the front lawn that watches everyone go by.
“The eyes are made from large pizza boxes cardboard and rolled by RC-servos that are controlled by an ATTiny2313 that’s connected to the PC using the low-speed software usb stack. The camera is connected using USB as well. Since I disassembled my webcam and hooked it up to an FPGA for some experiments, I used an analog one and a USB video digitizer.
The video processing is done using mplayer. It’s cropped first to get only the street and no neighbour estates. Then a tiny & quick&dirty video filter plugin looks for the column with the strongest Y-component difference between the last & current frame and if the difference exceeds a certain threshold, that column is passed to the microcontroller using libusb.”
Via: Hackaday
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HAH! It’s scary to walk by their house! I bet that’ll keep the kids off his lawn.
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This reminds me of a MacOS finder plugin that I saw a long time ago.
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Reminds me of that old lame javascript thing everyone would use on their webpages where the eyes follow you around screen
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This is cool, would be cool to have it in a fake person for holloween, so it follows people (objects) moving past the window
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Great!
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Wow, this is everywhere. They should sell ’em!
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Creepy. These are slightly creepy. It would be funn to set one up to watch kids walking around outside, freak em out. I live in a apartment complex with lots of rug rats that run around outside. This could be quite humourus.
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Doing the video processing with a plugin to a video player, great hack value!
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I would like to see a continuation of the topic
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Hoowww….That eyes is very Big. The Monster is see me, Heeelllllpppp meeeeeee……
Hey, I like your concept.