CMUCam2

[Neal Probert]

Here's the website for this.

http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~cmucam/cmucam2/

Somebody came up with a alternative to CMUCam, called AVRCam which is open sourced.

http://robots.net/article/1353.html

http://www.jrobot.net/Projects/AVRcam.html

[kutty18]

Hey, thanks for the link. Hmm, can you use more than one camera on the robot?

[CJO]

Why?? The camera comes in the kit of parts

[Mike Betts]

Originally Posted by kutty18

Hey, thanks for the link. Hmm, can you use more than one camera on the robot?

As long as you stay in th cost guidelines and don't run out of serial ports...

[CJO]

Originally Posted by Mike Betts

As long as you stay in th cost guidelines and don't run out of serial ports...

I do not think that is a problem, the cameras are designed to run in master/slave mode. Even if they were not, you could pass the output through the digital I/O on the robot controller.

[CJO]

Furthering above, I think it would even be possible to use one camera to pass code through from a second, that is, hook the two cameras up to a small logic gate which would check both for an update, and then put the two "T" (data) packets back to back. I think you could probably do something with an XOR to pass along an ACK, although, Master/Slave or the I/O is probably simpler.

[kutty18]

Originally Posted by CJO

Why?? The camera comes in the kit of parts

Well...we were brainstorming and this question was brought up. We don't know if we will use more than one camera, but we wanted a clarification on the rules. Thanks for replying.

[Greg Marra]

Originally Posted by kutty18

Well...we were brainstorming and this question was brought up. We don't know if we will use more than one camera, but we wanted a clarification on the rules. Thanks for replying.

I read in another thread that you CANNOT use more than one camera.

here

ID: 1007 Section: 5.3 Status: Answered Date Answered: 1/11/2005
Q: May we add more than one camera to the robot, In relation to R39-R40.
A: No.

I'm not sure why not...