A couple of projects for video INPUT/OUTPUT for Arduino:
- Arduino Eye Shield by David Chatting interprets PAL or NTSC video, and looks like you might be able to build one yourself (there is a schematic and some code)
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Video Experimenter by Nootropic Design can:
- Overlay text and graphics onto a video signal from a camera, DVR, DVD player, VCR or any other source of composite video.
- Capture low-res video image frames for display or video processing. Give your Arduino the gift of sight!
- Perform object detection for computer vision projects.
- Decode closed captioning or XDS (extended data services) data embedded in television broadcasts.
- Works with NTSC (North America) or PAL (rest of the world) television standards.
- Uses digital pins 2, 6, 7, 8, and optionally 9. Uses analog pin 2.
and it looks like you can buy or build.
- Finally, the Gameduino a “a game adapter for microcontrollers.” This is a new project that is seeking funding on kickstarter (only 6 days left to get in on it!), designed to build old-school games with your Arduino (think Super Nintendo old-school, not Atari 2600 old-school). The specs look pretty impressive, 400 x 300 pixels, 512 colors, sprites, etc.. Definitely worth keeping an eye on.
hi.. i’m new to arduino… i’d like to ask if is it possible that when i play a video in a computer the servo will run(turn)? thx
Not too difficult. You need some software that 1) knows the video if running on the computer and 2) can talk to the Arduino via serial communication. Processing is free and seems easy to get started with.
Then make a processing sketch that plays your video, and sends a serial message to the Arduino whenever you want the servo to run. Your Arduino program should just listen for the message from Processing, and run the servo when it gets the message.
thx… uhm.. do you know any software that can know the video if running on the computer?