Other camera other than Axis

[tdressel]

If you go to AXIS, the 206 and M1011 models are discontinued. The 206 model refers you to the M1011 model. The M1011 model refers you to the M1013 model.

QUESTION: Anyone out there used the M1013 model?

QUESTION: If you are interested in getting an additional camera, would you play it safe and buy the discontinued models (206 and M1011), or would you go for the supported model (M1013)?

[Greg McKaskle]

The 1013 has a wider lens, so the vision code will need a different angle for distance calculation. I also don't have one to test with yet, but it looks like a good camera and the Axis APIs are generally portable.

Greg McKaskle

[charr]

To widen out this discussion...
What exactly are the camera requirements? Are we prevented from using a USB webcam connected to our own onboard computer?

[ekapalka]

Originally Posted by charr

To widen out this discussion...
What exactly are the camera requirements? Are we prevented from using a USB webcam connected to our own onboard computer?

As far as I know, USB webcams are fair game. Even the fantastic Microsoft Kinect is allowed (you should look into that. It can see in infrared without an additional halo light, and see in 3D (i.e. allow you to easily gather the distance to an object)). Here's an awesome paper on it if you would like to go that route :)

[faust1706]

I'm honoured to have someone reference my paper. While the kinect is fair game, it has a lot of unneeded aspects (such as the servo motor and the mircophones). We recently bought the asus xtion (found here http://www.allsecurityelectronics.ne...KINPROL_d_A001) it has the same cameras as the kinect, but weighs (about) 3 times less.

If wanting to keep things simple, just go to walmart or some local store and buy a webcam for $10, no fancy mount required. Our mount for the kinect was a C channel with grip tape on the inside and zip ties.

And another paper will be up about my vision program from ultimate ascent before build season (we have a class at our school for independent research and my project is my vision program).