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Originally Posted by Greg McKaskle
By the way, it may also be useful to connect your camera directly to your laptop and verify that the camera still works. Robots sometimes snack on cords, connectors sometimes get broken, etc.
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Though I'm not on the programming team, I can verify that we did do this, and the camera does work (we've actually tried two different cameras, both work on the computer, neither work on the robot).
What's interesting is we actually pulled out a brand new RoboRio and hooked it up by itself to a practice bot (only connected the PDP and a radio though, no motor controllers or sensors), loaded the same code we have on our robot, and the camera worked fine. As soon as we took that same RoboRio and hooked it up to our competition robot however, the camera no longer worked (not even getting any LEDs on the camera to light up).
It's also my understanding that they are getting some data from the camera through the dashboard (usage, framerate, etc.) but no image.