[DFTF] Camera as Remote Eyes...

[Joe Johnson]

This is part of a series of posts called Drinking From The Firehose on getting Dr Joe back up to speed on All Things FIRST.



Today's topic:
Using the Camera to provide a remote set of eyes...

Using the camera to auto aim is just not in the cards for Schodinger's Cat this year (read [DFTF] The Classic Blunder... to learn that our robot, The Rook, is lucky to have a ball handler at all).

BUT... ...we may be able to manage mounting the kit camera on The Rook's beefy arm to

• help us see if we are lined up with the basket or
• see if a ball is lurking twixted The Rook and the dark side of a bridge or
• get a close up view of the sweat beading up on the foreheads of our opponents ;-)
• ...

Frankly, I am scared to death to do it. Not that it wouldn't be helpful but that it will screw something else up in the process (Why won't our robot respond Scottie? It's that video feed, Capt., it's eating our bandwidth like I eat haggis on Burns Night ... ;-)

So... ...tell me all. Can we safely use the Kit Camera as a remote set of eyes for our drivers?

And be quick about it. We've got BU in 7 days.

Joe J.