skyehoefling / rpicampantilt

.NET 5 based Pan-Tilt Module for Raspberry Pi PCA9685

RPiCamPanTilt

.NET 5 based Pan-Tilt Sample App for a Raspberry Pi 4 using the Arducam Pan-Tilt Module (PCA9685).

This is a .NET 5+ implementation of the Arducam PCA9685 pan-tilt camera module. It uses the all the C native driver code that was originally found on the official repository https://github.com/Arducam/PCA9685. This project exposes necessary APIs which allows the shared C# code to invoke them.

Hardware

This project uses the Arducam PCA9685 Pan-Tilt Module and a Raspberry Pi

• Arducam Official Documentation

The hardware was purchased on Amazon using the link below

• Amazon Link

Supported Devices

This has been tested on a Raspberry Pi 4 with the full .NET 5 SDK. No guarentees it will compile on any other system.

Getting Started

The fastest way to get started is by running the build.sh script from the root directory and then running the .NET sample application. If you are interested in the individual build steps, skip ahead to Building.

Quick Start

In the root of the repository execute the build.sh script and then run the sample app

./build.sh
cd PanTiltSample
dotnet run

Building

The complete build is broken into 2 main components

• Native C drivers
• .NET 5 code

The first step is to compile the native code which will be used by the .NET code.

cd lib
cmake .
make

Once the native code is compiled you can build and run the .NET code.

cd PanTiltSample
dotnet run

Created by Andrew Hoefling

• Twitter: @andrew_hoefling
• Blog: andrewhoefling.com

License

The MIT License (MIT) see License File