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Re: Best Cameras for Computer Vision

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Originally Posted by Adnewhouse View Post
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.
They're not UVC based cameras so they need special drivers in the Linux kernel. I'm not sure if you can add modules on the Roborio, but in theory it would be possible to get it working with the kernel source and a crosscompiler.
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