Multiple Axis Cams?

[BEASTistheB2ST]

Sorry, but I am really lost in all of this technological terminology. I believe the answers been hinted at, but not plainly said, so: are we allowed to use more than one camera on are robot, for better viewing of the field, or not? I know people keep talking about a four-input DLink thing, but does that mean we can use up to for cameras? I'm sorry, but I really don't understand!!! I didn't see any other posts about it...

[Alan Anderson]

Originally Posted by BEASTistheB2ST

I know people keep talking about a four-input DLink thing, but does that mean we can use up to for cameras?

The D-Link DAP-1522 is the white "robot radio". It is a network router with four Ethernet ports and a Wi-Fi connection. One of its ports must go to the cRIO. That leaves three ports unclaimed for whatever you want to connect to them. The other port on the cRIO is also available for your use.

If you can figure out how to communicate with them, you can use as many commercial, off-the-shelf cameras as you want on your robot (subject to weight, volume, and budget limitations, of course). An eight-port network switch (does anyone even make "dumb" hubs anymore?) would give you the ability to connect six additional devices.

I don't know what network addresses will be available for you to use during competition. It might be that only a camera connected through the cRIO will be viewable on the Driver Station. In that case, you'll need to find a way to select which camera gets its data forwarded and thus seen on the Dashboard display.

[Anupam Goli]

I finally understand that the white Dlink goes on our robot, sorry that was a goof on my part. And we can use our own custom laptops for the driver station, so we could technically have a mozilla browser open to the ip of the camera, and just make that take up half the screen with the rest of the driver station take up the rest.

[plnyyanks]

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