[Ziaholic]

I almost went down that path ... I have the Axis camera at my house, and could've re-configured it to work on my home LAN.

It just seemed silly to be on my laptop in the living room, playing with a camera that was hooked to a 100' ethernet cable that snaked back into my home office. ... especially since I was staring at a camera right there in my laptop lid. (and not having the Axis power cord was another reason to try to get my webcam working)

I understand the desire to develop the apps using the same camera we'd use in competition, but I figured that I could still investigate various hi-level methods with any camera, then fine-tune those methods once I was back running on the 'bot.

This all becomes moot in a few days, when I get my team's controller for the next few weeks. If I still don't have a USB solution working when I give back the cRio, I'll simply setup the Axis cam to work on my home network.


[edit] If I had the Axis power cord, I would've tried plugging it into my home router and reconfiguring it ... I didn't know that it'd work by plugging directly into my Laptop's RJ45. I just assumed I had to plug it into my home router. My laptop's RJ45 is inactive 99.99% of the time, I could reconfigure it to some dummy IP range without affecting it's wireless surfing etc. This sounds like a very feasible option. Thanks for the tip.