Just a warning to teams who haven't yet discovered...
Our new camera for autonomous mode fried at our team meeting tonight (oops
). Here's the layout of what happened so you guys don't make it turn bright orange and smoke...
- Camera assembled with two Servo's attached (all in correct places)
- Camera system hooked up to a PC
- Camera's PMW and power supply attached to an '04 Robot Controller, hooked up to a modified cordless drill
- and here's what made the mess... Wires from Servo external power supply hooked up to a cordless drill battery.
Here's a web-page one our of mentors found about this issue:
Finally, power is needed for the CMUcam2. Be very careful at this stage, reversing the polarity of the power source has a rather spectacular effect as I found out myself first-hand. Smoke, sparks and a dead CMUcam2. The positive (red) cable should connect to Vdd and the negative (black) cable connects to Vss.
Highly recommend NOT doing
