Multiple Axis Cams?

[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.

[tomy]

Originally Posted by Al Skierkiewicz

As Alan has pointed out the Dlink is your new robot radio and a router thrown in. Take your old linksys home or put it too good use somewhere else. It cannot be on the robot this year.
<R52> One D-Link DAP-1522 is the only permitted mechanism for communicating to and from the ROBOT during the MATCH. All signals must originate from the OPERATOR CONSOLE and/or the Field Management System, and be transmitted to the ROBOT via the official ARENA hardware. No other form of wireless communications shall be used to communicate to, from or within the ROBOT (e.g. radio modems from previous FIRST competitions and Bluetooth devices are not permitted on the ROBOT during competition).

So we can use a second camera if we put it our cots/bill of materials?

[omalleyj]

I have also been contemplating a second camera. The ethernet port is there, but can I power it? The wiring diagram still shows the camera connected to the 5V supply on the PDB and you typically are not allowed to wire multiple devices to the same connector. Are we allowed to wire it as a custom circuit with a converter? I am still looking but I haven't seen anything yet.

[Al Skierkiewicz]

These are good questions for the Q&A.

[tomy]

you can power it with a second side card i just want to know if you can do it?

cause if you connected a camera to the crio the clam can use it for the drivers. then if you cennect another to the d-link router your team mates could connect to it to watch the game from the camera instead of the stands right?

[Alan Anderson]

Originally Posted by tomy

you can power it with a second side card i just want to know if you can do it?

cause if you connected a camera to the crio the clam can use it for the drivers. then if you cennect another to the d-link router your team mates could connect to it to watch the game from the camera instead of the stands right?

I really don't understand what you want to know. What is a "second side card"? What is "the clam" supposed to be? See if you can find someone to help you ask your question in a less cryptic fashion.

[tomy]

okay there is the digital side card which you plug the pwms into.... that is not were the camera gets power...

[Alan Anderson]

Originally Posted by tomy

okay there is the digital side card which you plug the pwms into.... that is not were the camera gets power...

The Digital Sidecar has absolutely nothing to do with the camera (except maybe to provide control to servos on a pan/tilt mount if you use one). The camera has its own dedicated 5 volt power connection on the Power Distribution Board.

[tomy]

so then you couldn't have two camera's cause you would need two power distribution boards

[Alan Anderson]

Originally Posted by tomy

so then you couldn't have two camera's cause you would need two power distribution boards

Additional cameras would fall under the category of custom circuits. You can provide power to them using a 20-amp circuit from the Power Distribution (plus whatever voltage regulation they might require).

[Anupam Goli]

T-junction wiring.

[tomy]

mhmm that sounds like fun T-junction i might have to try that

[Anupam Goli]

Yea, we did that to the cRIO last year and the solenoid breakout.

[tomy]

how hard is it to do?

and how safe is it?

[Anupam Goli]

I'm not sure about safety, but all you do is take another wire, put it across the main one going to your first camera, and solder it in a T-splice.