[Max Lobovsky]

The CMUcam is pretty cool and its a nice little package for the features it packs, thanks for posting about it. From the site:

" Track user defined color blobs at up to 50 Frames Per Second (frame rate depends on resolution and window size settings)"

Regardless, I really doubt you could adapt it to FIRST. I don't know exactly what they mean by "color blob", but it doesn't sound like its going to be able to track any object on any previous years fields. With the lighting on the field, even big yellow balls are often light and dark yellow hemispheres with some large white circle somewhere on them (shadows and reflections). To make matters worse, 175 happens to sitting across the field with their bright yellow robot.

I think this camera is not intended to be used in a "real life" situation, it just seems impossible that it could pack that much versatility and power. Tracking a single color blob just won't cut it.