Photohead

Photohead is a motorized pan and tilt head on which a camera can be mounted. A Raspberry Pi 5 is used to perform the following functions:

• Acquisition of images from the camera.
• Application of an object detection algorithm to the acquired images.
• Control of the head's stepper motors to orient the camera towards the detected object(s).
• Broadcast of the acquired image stream.

This list is not exhaustive, and other features may be added during development.

Initial Concept

Assembly

System overview

Project tree

The project is divided into 3 folders:

• soft: contains the application code running on the Raspberry Pi 5.
• mech: contains the mechanical design files.(e.g.: 3D printed parts)
• elec: contains the electronic board (stepper motor driver) design files.