Thread: How is your camera mounted?
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Unread 07-03-2006, 17:50
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Re: How is your camera mounted?
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Originally Posted by bear24rw
You have two cameras? How did you wire them through one port?
I didn't. I have a custom circuit board with three rs232 level serial ports, two of which connect to the two cameras and one of which connects to the program port on the PIC, not the TTL level port.

Binocular vision could also be accomplished by connecting one camera to the program port and one to the TTL port, and then messing with Kevin's camera driver code to use the cameras on both ports. My way was just easier, 'cause I'm lazy.

Also note: the cameras don't really need to be powered by the 7.2 volt power supply on the PIC board. If you're not powering the servos off the camera board, 5v will do just fine in powering the camera itself, it says in the "Big Binder of the Camera" that power goes through a 5v regulator. So just hook up the camera to a digital inout or whatever for power, and you won't have to deal with backup battery foolishness, because that silly thing was being drained far too quickly by our two camera setup.
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