Inspiration

  • California fires ## What it does
  • Tracks something that we tell it too and follows it throughout the camera view. ## How we built it
  • Creating a CAD model
  • 3D printing ## Challenges we ran into The 3D printer printed a bit too small and we had to file things down. The tracking software kept crashing and didn't work well in the beginning. ## Accomplishments that we're proud of
  • The tracking works better than we thought it would.
  • The turret can move with two degrees of freedom.
  • The Arduino communicates with a python script. ## What we learned
  • OpenCV
  • Solidworks
  • Image processing ## What's next for Turret Tracker
  • Refining the tracking system using AI to ignore everything but what we want tracked.
  • Outfitting the turret to actually shoot water or some other fire extinguisher.

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