[mtaman02]

I don't see any issues with using an onboard camera so long as all robots are to use it. These cameras that Nascar use are of high quality and have made it through the toughest test - Vibration, Wind, Weather. With that said it's safe to say those cameras would be ideal for FIRST if they were mounted out of the way of scoring parts on the robot / field. Team 177 and Team 766 aren't the only robots who have utilized and onboard camera for FIRST Non-FIRST events. There was also another team that used it in 2001 at Bash at the Beach in CT which was strictly for the audiences benefit. I don't remember the Team number but I do remember that it was a team that had bought a second robot to that event. There wasn't much to the robot as far as construction is concerned (Pretty much a rolling Chassis.). As a matter of fact I think it was Team 225 who bought a second robot to that event.