Pixy (CMUcam5): a fast, easy-to-use vision sensor

A project in Austin, TX by Charmed Labs and Carnegie Mellon
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Pixy is a fast vision sensor you can quickly "teach" to find objects, and it reports its findings through several simple interfaces.
Backers: 2802
Average Pledge Per Backer: $98

Funded: $274,352 of $25,000
Dates: Aug 15th -> Sep 14th (30 days)
Project By: Charmed Labs and Carnegie Mellon
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Thank you!

September 14th - via: kickstarter.com
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Final hours -- please help us get the word out!

September 11th - via: kickstarter.com
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Pixy plays with lasers

September 9th - via: kickstarter.com
Hey everybody!  So, this is the final stretch--- only a few days left before our Kickstarter ends (and the special pricing).  Heading into the final stretch, we created a new video, a small video, a cat video!  It shows Pixy playing with some... (Read More)

Top 5 Kickstarter Projects topping the charts and getting the community in action

September 3rd - via: startups.fm
Kickstarter as a platform has its own beauty and is a niche community that has been supporting insanely creative projects across the planet. Currently Kickstarter is also reaching out to Canada, Australia and New Zealand. This has been one of Kickstarter’s major expansion plans. Last year Kickstarter rolled out in the UK as well. Kickstarter evangelists say that more than the money it is the community that helps in a product sustainability. The way projects gets feedback from backers is like a real time market survey. This loop helps in better execution and obviously building something that people love. They literally put money where their mouth is. Here are some awesome projects which we thought needs a mention. (Read More)

Pixy: A Simple Vision System for Arduino

August 28th - via: eetimes.com
Visually detecting items in your home projects has generally been an arduous task. Pixy makes it very easy. (Read More)

Make up your own reward

August 27th - via: kickstarter.com
Hi everybody! We've received several requests for various combinations of rewards--- 3 Pixys, 2 pan/tilt mechanisms, 4 Pixys and 1 pan/tilt, etc.  Kickstarter doesn't have an intuitive way to deal with these -- you can only choose 1 reward (and not... (Read More)

Face detection and tracking is coming!

August 23rd - via: kickstarter.com
Hi Everybody,  Happy Friday!  We've had a huge response from users asking us for face detection and tracking, so we're now committed to bringing it to you as soon as possible. We're looking at some possible algorithms right now.  We have... (Read More)

Having a good week, thanks everyone!

August 21st - via: kickstarter.com
Hey everyone! Just wanted to share some of the press Pixy's getting.  It's great -- the more that people hear about Pixy, the more interest is generated, and more resources are brought to the project --- whether it's coders on our side, or someone... (Read More)

New rewards

August 20th - via: kickstarter.com
Hi everybody, We're so happy to have reached our goal (and then some)!  Crazy awesome!  The more we sell, the more resources we can bring into the project.  We've had some requests for different rewards, so we added two more: DUAL PAN/TILT PIXY... (Read More)

Holy moly

August 17th - via: kickstarter.com
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