Introducing SparkFun Red Vision!
Computer vision, simplified—Red Vision adds a touchscreen and camera to your favorite microcontroller enabling real-time image processing.
Welcome back to another Friday Product Post everyone! The big news this week is that we are launching a new product line: Red Vision! Red Vision uses a MicroPython port of the popular computer vision library OpenCV combined with a touchscreen display and camera to make learning and using machine vision as easy as possible! We're launching with two products and a kit for use with the XRP, but be on the lookout for further development with Red Vision in the future!
$119.95
Have an XRP Kit and looking to experiment with machine vision? The SparkFun Red Vision Kit for XRP comes with the Red Vision Touch Display for Pico and Red Vision Camera Board - HM01B0 (Color) to add machine vision capabilities to the Experiential Robotics Platform (XRP) Kit. This kit comes with everything you need to quickly and easily add a camera and touchscreen display to your XRP Robot with no soldering required. These boards let you add live image processing as well as advanced features such as object and contour detection to the Experiential Robotics Platform (XRP) Kit using the SparkFun MicroPython Red Vision Code package, a MicroPython port of the popular OpenCV image processing library.
We promise this isn't like a Squid Game thing.
The Red Vision Camera Board - HM01B0 (Color) is a breakout board for the HM01B0 320 x 320 color camera module from Himax©. The Camera Board breaks out all the pins from the HM01B0's ribbon cable to three sets of 0.1"-spaced plated through-hole (PTH) pins for users to easily access. We designed it to work both as a standalone breakout board and also as a compliment to the SparkFun Red Vision Touch Display for Pico to add live image processing as well as advanced features like object and contour detection to the Experiential Robotics Platform (XRP) Kit using a SparkFun MicroPython port of the popular OpenCV image processing library. Details include:
- 320 x 320 pixel resolution that supports frame rates of up to 51FPS in full resolution (320x320) and up to 60FPS in windowed/QVGA (320x240) operation
- 2x2 monochrome binning mode that supports up to 120FPS if you're looking to maximize frame rate over resolution and color
- Motion detect feature tied to an interrupt output so you can program it to wake up your camera project whenever it senses motion
- Video data interface communicates over a configurable 1, 4 or 8bit interface that features both video frame for synchronizing multiple cameras and line sync for creating a composite image from two cameras
- Three different and versatile oscillator options for the camera module
The Red Vision Touch Display for Pico is a 2.0", 320x240px capacitive touch LCD mounted on a breakout board designed to plug directly into the Control Board on the XRP Kit as well as Raspberry Pi Picos. The display board includes a connector specifically designed to allow you to plug the Red Vision Camera Board - HM01B0 (Color) or other 2x9 connection type camera boards into the display board, and comes with:
- A pair of 1x20 headers to plug into the XRP Control Board
- µSD card connector for memory expansion
- Qwiic connector to connect other Qwiic devices directly to the display board
- I/O expander to control I/O pins on both the display, camera and SD card over I2C
That's it for this week at SparkFun. As always, we can't wait to see what you make! Shoot us a tweet @sparkfun, or let us know on Instagram, Facebook or LinkedIn. Please be safe out there, be kind to one another! Happy hacking!
