Hello friends! Today we will get started with the Pixy camera and understand how it can add colour-based vision to a microcontroller project. Before connecting it to a robot, we will identify the board, choose the correct cables and establish what information the camera can actually provide. The board in this tutorial is the original Pixy CMUcam5, often called Pixy1. Its software, firmware and Arduino library belong to that product generation. If you have Pixy2, use its own documentation and downloads; similar names do not make the two software packages interchangeable. Our first objective is simple: connect the original camera to a computer, view a useful scene, and prepare it to recognize a coloured target. Once that works, we can pass compact detection results to Arduino and decide how ...