🌱 The Seed Eater
Seed Tracker is an open-source tool designed to record and analyze the velocity of seeds dropped from a column using Raspberry Pi-based hardware. It’s modular, configurable, and built to run both in development environments and production setups.
Context
I built this tool for the University of Canterbury in New Zealand, specifically for the Forestry Department, to study seed behavior—especially for Pinus radiata, which is an invasive species there.
The goal was also to document and open-source the project to provide an easy-to-build, low-cost hardware solution that any researcher at a university can adapt for their own purposes.
Main Features
- Raspberry Pi-based system with a main unit and worker units connected via a crossover bridge
- Image processing pipelines using two cameras with stereo vision
- Velocity computation algorithms that can be customized and improved
- CLI tools for administration, testing, and calibration
- Modular algorithm architecture making it easy to plug in and test new implementations
Seed Tracker is intended as a platform to:
- experiment with computer vision pipelines,
- analyze seed behavior during free fall,
- and contribute to open-source innovation in agriculture.
Other medias
Source
Source code (only the backend without documentation)
Report (french)
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