Hi all,
Just thought I’d share a pan/tilt camera system we developed recently. The camera is a 1080P/25FPS IP board camera, connected to a network switch with a network enabled Arduino Uno. The Uno controls the servos from the surface using a custom webpage (local network), and the video feed is viewed on the same laptop/PC using a web browser (video below).
Using a centralised underwater hub, 4 cameras are connected, and only 1 surface-to-hub cable is required (power and data). The topside web browser is configured to a quad split screen so all feeds are viewed simultaneously.
This was built for a static application, but there’s no reason it couldn’t be adapted to ROV/drop camera use. In that case you would probably make use of the Pixhawk board for control within QGC (is the pan feature still available?)
