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I am planning to build an autonomous car in LEGO Mindstorms that will use ultrasonic or infrared sensors for collision avoidance and in the future also a camera for line tracking. I am now wondering which camera I should use. Currently, I am considering the following two cameras:

  1. The Pixy LEGO Camera
    It seems to be quite good for object tracking, however, I am not sure whether it will work well for line tracking.

  2. The NXTCam-v4
    Judging from the videos on 3 line tracking should work quite well with this camera.

I am leaning towards the NXTCam but I wanted to get some other opinions before investing money ;) Therefore, your view on things is greatly appreciated, especially regarding which camera is best for lane tracking and which camera has a good API to use it with a different programming language than the LEGO building blocks (so for example to leJOS, RobotC, ...). Thank you!

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  • I've not used either, but judging from the docs for the Pixy cam, it's more for "trained object recognition" - so if you're avoiding known objects you might be ok, but otherwise it might not be great. That said, the original Mindstorms used the colour/light sensor to do line tracking and path following - assuming a track on the ground with sufficient contrast was available.
    – Zhaph - Ben Duguid ♦
    Commented Oct 16, 2017 at 12:38
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    There is now a NXTCam-v5 which, as far as I can tell, can do everything the PixyCam can do and more.
    – David Lechner
    Commented Oct 16, 2017 at 12:57
  • @Zhaph-BenDuguid Yes, I know that you can use colour/light sensors for line tracking. However, I am aiming for a more realistic autonomous car hence line tracking should be achieved via a camera. Thanks for the comment anyway!
    – ec-m
    Commented Oct 16, 2017 at 13:43
  • @DavidLechner Alright, that is good to know. There is also an EV3-G building block for the NXTCam - would you use that one or would you recommend switching to a different programming language for accurate line tracking (f.ex. leJOS with OpenCV)? (see bricks.stackexchange.com/questions/9295/…)
    – ec-m
    Commented Oct 16, 2017 at 13:46
  • FYI, there is such a thing as PixyCam2 which has some improvements from the old one, and it supports line-tracking. Never heard of NXTcam though.
    – mindstormsboi
    Commented May 1, 2020 at 23:48

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