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Re: RC won't talk to CMUcam
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Originally Posted by HPA_Robotics_13
Team 833 needs some help with their camera:
We can talk to the camera unit from our laptop via the DB9 connector. But we cannot get the RC to communicate with the camera, even using the default code.

We have disconnected the DB9 link. We have ensured the 7.2V battery is adequately charged.

Any help would be greatly appreciated (our programming team says that they have read all other threads about the camera system and no one else seems to have had this problem).

We had this problem too and I think I can help you out. The same thing was happening to us and we found out that the TTL-232 chip was bad. They're 10 bucks off IFI's site, and now everything works fine. The troubleshooter for this told us what was wrong...you can find that through the "TTL-232 Basic Board Troubleshooting" link at the top of this page: http://www.ifirobotics.com/camera.shtml

I hope this helps you out. Good luck.