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Re: Different camera capitability?

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Originally Posted by Greg McKaskle View Post
If you had a rookie kit, I believe it should have been in the kit. Report this to FIRST.

When being evaluated in 2008, less expensive cameras would have latency of more than half of a second. The Axis is more like 60ms. The cameras has HW to speed image compression and generally has a nice programming API.

While you can use other cameras and sensors on the robot, the WPILib support is specific to Axis. Also keep in mind that the controller doesn't have a USB port, so Kinect and USB cameras will not work without an additional board.

Greg McKaskle
They just did not have any this cameras for rookies this year, it was not on the checklist.

Any Idea how you could process images from a kinect or PS eye? And possibly stream some info (Distance angle etc. ) to the driver station?

Also how would something like a pi handle image processing? what would the latency be like?
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