pic: 358 has four eyes!

[Matt Krass]

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[527point]

I'm scared....one of these days you will need to explain to me exactly what your doing with these

[Nuttyman54]

why is one mounted on what appears to be a joystick?

[Matt Krass]

Prototype gimbal.

Now we're waiting for Kevin to help us interface four cameras with only two serial ports.....any ideas?

[Arkorobotics]

Why in the world do you need 4?

[Gdeaver]

How can you justify the cost of 4 cameras and the additional electronics rule?

[Tristan Lall]

Originally Posted by Gdeaver

How can you justify the cost of 4 cameras and the additional electronics rule?

4 × $199.95 (USD) doesn't violate the cost limits. They are COTS electronics, so they don't violate the material utilization rules either.

[Erics626]

Do I spot a joystick base being used for the pan and tilt? How did you manage to do that?

[Peter Matteson]

Originally Posted by Erics626

Do I spot a joystick base being used for the pan and tilt? How did you manage to do that?

Replace the potentiometers with servos. Just takes a couple of brackets and a basic shaft.

[Sachiel7]

Again, I ask (as others have) why the need for four cameras?
If you're having that much trouble centering in on a goal, I think you might need to adjust the focus...dunno....
If its for something else, such as the proposed "tracking balls" theories teams have been putting forth, I still think you could accomplish that with less....

[Mark McLeod]

Originally Posted by Sachiel7

Again, I ask (as others have) why the need for four cameras?

One for the goal and three to track opposing alliance robots of course.

[Chriszuma]

Originally Posted by Dzdconfusd

Replace the potentiometers with servos. Just takes a couple of brackets and a basic shaft.

Dude! You totally stole my idea from last year! http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=33418

[Peter Matteson]

Originally Posted by Chriszuma

Dude! You totally stole my idea from last year! http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=33418

Yeah we saw that and did the same thing because it was a nice simple solution. The difference was we got rid of the plastic we didn't need to lighten it up.

[Chriszuma]

And it seems like the 4 cameras might just be an extremely inefficient method of attaining hardware fault protection. In this way 3 cameras can be annihilated with poof balls before the robot is blind. Of course a simple protective cage with a window would work equally well, but if you're under budget why not go for the gusto?

[Tom Bottiglieri]

Originally Posted by Matt Krass

Prototype gimbal.

Now we're waiting for Kevin to help us interface four cameras with only two serial ports.....any ideas?

It's really easy!!

Cam1 = new Camera();
Cam2= new Camera();
Cam3= new Camera();
Cam4= new Camera();

RC.MakeThread();

Thread.Run(Cam[x].TrackRobotsAndStuff()) ;