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Pan Tilt Mechanical drawing nripun 06-27-2006
Posted by on June 27, 2006, 3:19 am
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I am new to the area of robotics and hardware related to robotics. I am
currently working on a tracking application wherein the moving object
in the view of the camera is tracked. Right now the application can
track a moving object by the mouse cursor. I would like to extend the
program where the camera moves along with the object. I have to build a
pan tilt mechanism to mount my USB webcam. can anyone please provide a
pan tilt drawing from which i can start from scratch.


Posted by Padu on June 27, 2006, 2:21 pm
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>I am new to the area of robotics and hardware related to robotics. I am
> currently working on a tracking application wherein the moving object
> in the view of the camera is tracked. Right now the application can
> track a moving object by the mouse cursor. I would like to extend the
> program where the camera moves along with the object. I have to build a
> pan tilt mechanism to mount my USB webcam. can anyone please provide a
> pan tilt drawing from which i can start from scratch.
>

Do you really need to start from scratch?

There are plenty of good PT bases around. i'm using this one right now:
http://www.crustcrawler.com/products/s3.php?id=

but I know that CMUCam also offers a simpler kit, and if you take a look at
the advertises of any robotics magazine (servo, nuts&volts, robot, circuit
cellar), you will find more.

Don't get me wrong, it's no rocket science making one, but I prefer to spend
my time building more interesting stuff.

Cheers

Padu



Posted by Si Ballenger on June 27, 2006, 6:47 pm
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On 27 Jun 2006 00:19:21 -0700, nripun@gmail.com wrote:

>I am new to the area of robotics and hardware related to robotics. I am
>currently working on a tracking application wherein the moving object
>in the view of the camera is tracked. Right now the application can
>track a moving object by the mouse cursor. I would like to extend the
>program where the camera moves along with the object. I have to build a
>pan tilt mechanism to mount my USB webcam. can anyone please provide a
>pan tilt drawing from which i can start from scratch.
>

I've got some simple pan/tilt setups below that use servos.

http://www.geocities.com/zoomkat/cam.htm
http://www.geocities.com/zoomkat/ezservo.htm


Posted by Clifford Heath on June 29, 2006, 11:02 pm
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nripun@gmail.com wrote:
> can anyone please provide a
> pan tilt drawing from which i can start from scratch.

I salvaged a robust pan-tilt mechanism from the head
mechanism of an old golf-ball typewriter. It'll do
about 90 degrees vertically and continuous horizontally.
Just a thought.

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