CMUCam2
 

Here's the website for this.

http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~cmucam/cmucam2/

Somebody came up with a alternative to CMUCam, called AVRCam which is open sourced.

http://robots.net/article/1353.html

http://www.jrobot.net/Projects/AVRcam.html

Re: CMUCam2
 

Hey, thanks for the link. Hmm, can you use more than one camera on the robot?

Re: CMUCam2
 

Why?? The camera comes in the kit of parts

Re: CMUCam2
 

As long as you stay in th cost guidelines and don't run out of serial ports...

Re: CMUCam2
 

I do not think that is a problem, the cameras are designed to run in master/slave mode. Even if they were not, you could pass the output through the digital I/O on the robot controller.

Re: CMUCam2
 

Furthering above, I think it would even be possible to use one camera to pass code through from a second, that is, hook the two cameras up to a small logic gate which would check both for an update, and then put the two "T" (data) packets back to back. I think you could probably do something with an XOR to pass along an ACK, although, Master/Slave or the I/O is probably simpler.

Re: CMUCam2
 

Well...we were brainstorming and this question was brought up. We don't know if we will use more than one camera, but we wanted a clarification on the rules. Thanks for replying.

Re: CMUCam2
 

I read in another thread that you CANNOT use more than one camera.

here

I'm not sure why not...