EEVblog #429 - TurtleBot & CineMoco

Gavin Smith a.k.a The Mechatronics Guy always has interesting stuff in his car boot. Here he shows off his TurtleBot and CineMoco camera dolly system.

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[EEVblog]

They generally don't come into houses, they like to hide in backyard garages and under rocks and logs etc. I've seen'em around. Redbacks too.

[HansVanIngelgom]

No. It is a normal camera, an IR camera, and a laser combined. the laser is scattered around, creating a field of infrared dots. The kinect then calculates the depth from the positions of the dots. So the normal camera provides RGB values, while the IR camera provides depth values.

[elisheffer]

Yes.. very intersting... if I had a job I'd definately build one.
lol that STI in the background really caught my eye..

[flesvik]

And a IR laser scanner. But the hard part is processing the images to get some 3D information out of it. That uses some fast electronics and some pretty advanced mathematical algorithmic to do.

[UberAlphaSirus]

Ahhh that Turtlebot could save so much time and effort on r&d. Didn't know they existed, thanks. While I am here, would you consider a teardown on one of them plug in the wall energy meters? The accuracy of them and maybe a lesson on power factors, maybe a follow up on the household electric meter teardown and the difference stances on measuring. No rush though, I like your field vids as well :D

[mgregggphone]

He was.

That price also supplies a laptop to run it all.

[elsni]

Turtlebot base looks looks suspiciously like a Roomba cleaning robot.

[mgregggphone]

The original turtlebot base was a roomba discovery.

[malgailany]

Robotics are very interesting engineering field.

[anqzavok]

Kinect is just two hd-cameras in one box, isn't it?

[TofuInc]

That thing looks suspiciously like my roomba. I could mount a bookshelf and kinect on it and save $1400!

[flesvik]

What the Chinese have managed to even copy the Kinect? I did not think thay where going to be able to do that. How do you spell the name of that Kinect copy and where is it sold?

[fenclu]

Gavin looked like a nice guy until I saw that he drives a Prius...