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Originally Posted by stephenthe1
thanks for the help guys, now the problem is that the thing won't even turn on still. does that chip you were talking about (which was indeed the chip I was talking about), make the camera not work unless it's attatched to the controller?
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No, if you are just using the JAVA GUI software on the computer you do not need to attach the little board. This is for communicating with the robot controller. By any chance, did you turn the power switch on the camera on?
All we had to do to get the camera talking to our PC was hook up the power using the pwm cable, connect the serial cable from the PC to the camera, hook up two servos to the pan and tilt output (if you want), and switch the power on.
Have you tried reading the documents in this link from the IFI robotics website?
http://www.ifirobotics.com/docs/cmuc...-software1.zip
It has a calibration how to...and a camera manual of how to set up the camera.