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Originally Posted by Justin Buist
It also doesn't work with the roboRio, at least not out of the box. We've tinkered with them a bit this year. The most promising thing, to me, about them is that you can pull the IR filter out and replace it with Mylar (or the inside of an old floppy disk) to block most visible light but let IR through.
The pi works with the camera just fine though. Had two students "struggle" with getting it to work on their Windows and Mac machines but popped it into the pi and it was just fine. Not sure why the roboRio is crippled with only supporting the "uvcvideo" kernel module and none of the other USB webcams. I could understand it if they really nailed that one down but the Wpilib documentation and interaction with v4l2 is so bad even with that limited driver support that it's almost like they didn't try and forced people to get creative.
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That's a real bummer. The camera is really great on a Raspberry Pi. The sensor is superb and that IR filter hack sounds really cool. I'm guessing recompiling the kernel on the roboRio to support the camera is a no-go because of national instrument's special sauce. We have at least 4 of them floating around because they're so cheap.