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Re: How do you hook up the camera?

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Originally Posted by SpeakerSilenced
That helps some... where does the TTL on the R232 go? into the TTL of the camera board?

And how do you hook it up to calibrate it and/or on the robot?
Here are a couple of other photos to help. The servos are driven by the camera by those wires at the top. We had to reverse how the camera drove the servos, but you cannot quite see the jumper used in the photo.

There are two different ways we hookup the CMU camera:

1) to a PC to run the CMU GUI to get the calibration numbers and to test the camera. At the regional events the FIRST staff will give you the calibration numbers. These numbers have to be typed into the CMU camera code (v2.4). The GUI is in the IFI Robotics download
http://www.ifirobotics.com/docs/cmuc...-software1.zip
You'll find the GUI under the folders Software\CMUcam2GUI_fe\stand_alone and is called CMUcam2GUI_fe.jar

2) to the RC to drive the robot.

You cannot have the camera hooked up to both the PC and the RC at the same time or it just won't work.
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