Circuit diagram using Tinkercad

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Object tracking and controlling pan and tilt servo motor accordingly

💡 Inspiration

While watching online lectures, we noticed that there is a person handling the camera for the teacher adjusting the angle according to the teacher. So we thought of creating a hardware application which would track the teacher and adjust the camera accordingly.

💻 What it does

It detects objects and then tracks them using Pan and Tilt servo motor. For face-tracking code, it detects the face and then our servo motors are controlled accordingly with the movement of our detected face. We then modified our code in the object-tracking file, so that it can track any object, not just the face.

Circuit Diagram

Use Cases

Helping Teachers in Online Classes :- While taking online classes, teachers who use big white boards often walk throughout the board requiring another person to asjust the camera frequently. So this project would be useful for those teachers as it would track them and rotate the camera keeping the teacher in frame.
Sports :- There are a lots of sports which require continuous tracking of players, so we can select their faces and let the motor track them all along
Content Creation :- This project can also be used in content creation and film-making

⚙️ How we built it

Arduino UNO
Servo Motor
Pan and Tilt Motor
Arduino Cable
Jumper Wires (M to M)
Breadboard
Arduino IDE
VS Code
OpenCV
Pyserial

🧠 Challenges we ran into

We were all new to Arduino and had issues connecting Arduino code to Pyhon code
We didn't had a Logitech camera, which would fit on our Servo Motor, so we used our Laptops camera instead.
Our motor rotated 180* whenever we made a movement, so it took a while to fix that\

🏅 Accomplishments that we're proud of

We were able to make a raw protoype of our application, were able to select an object and track it and rotate the servo motor accordingly.
Learned about Arduino and Arduino programming