If you just need the camera to look around, you can also hook up the servos to the camera, and have it point itself. Then you can use any computer (or controller) with a serial port to give it commands. The entire communication protocol is documented.
One thing I was thinking about doing is making a CMUcam "terminal" interface. You give it commands, and it sends them to the camera. Ideally, could handle any mode, including streaming images and data. (I did actually start it, but I never finished.)
About the EDU bot, that looks very cool. Maybe I'll build something like that to carry my books around next year.
The LED display reminds me of a few
projects I saw once on bigclive.com. (Warning: he's a British theater electrician/SFX guy and a pyro nut.) He's got a couple of PCB-based LED boards and such you might be interested in. (or maybe it's too advanced/bright for FIRST uses.)