Searching for a minimal USB camera

[wt200999]

You can usually get the PS3 eye camera quite cheaply on ebay, and it supports low res (though high framerate). I've gotten this camera to run on both the BeagleBone Black and the Jetson TK1. It has some brightness correction and auto-focus though, if that is a deal breaker.

[msto]

Extra features aren't bad for my needs, simply more than I need. Features aren't deal breakers: I mainly want to reduce price.

Thanks for the advice.

[adciv]

$25 is too expensive for a camera?

[seg9585]

The ones on FIRST Choice are pretty small, and free

[ratdude747]

Dead laptop webcams are usually $5 or less on fleabay... or if you know anybody with a few dead laptops/guts in a file cabinet (like me ), barter/free. Yesterday I pulled apart a beat to **** (but still running, sorta) 13" toshiba from 2007 and sure enough, a narrow little webcam module came out of the lid that from pre-parting testing, is a pretty basic 1.3MP UVC webcam. Another one in the pile...

[buchanan]

PS3 Eye cameras are $8 from Amazon in bulk packaging. High frame rate, low latency, low motion blur, acceptable image quality. These are my favorite of the several I've tried.

[PhilBot]

Originally Posted by buchanan

PS3 Eye cameras are $8 from Amazon in bulk packaging. High frame rate, low latency, low motion blur, acceptable image quality. These are my favorite of the several I've tried.

I got a couple of these and I can't get my Laptop to even recognise them as cameras, only audio inputs. No S/W included... is there a trick to get them to work?

Was your reference based on FIRST usage, or something else....

[wt200999]

Originally Posted by PhilBot

I got a couple of these and I can't get my Laptop to even recognise them as cameras, only audio inputs. No S/W included... is there a trick to get them to work?

Was your reference based on FIRST usage, or something else....

I also referenced it, but based on outside usage. I've used the ps3 eye before on the beaglebone and Jetson TK1, though only the beaglebone has the proper kernel module built on it, which is the gspca-ov534. The Jetson board and the roboRIO do not have it. So to get it to work with the roboRIO you would have to compile and load it yourself.

I know NI has their kernel on github but I haven't seen anyone try to build it or any kernel modules for the roboRIO.