Cmucam overheating

[Binome]

I second dumping in kevins code, and plugging your servos on 1 and 2. It pretty much works out of the box, and everyone whos a programming noob thinks its magic.

[Kevin Watson]

Originally Posted by Binome

I second dumping in kevins code, and plugging your servos on 1 and 2. It pretty much works out of the box, and everyone whos a programming noob thinks its magic.

I guess now is the time for me to jump in and promote the CMUcam2 camera FAQ.

BTW, it is magic <grin>.

-Kevin

[Oumonkey]

I'm about to leave and try this stuff. The code was unchanged. I was going to try the easy C stuff. I look in the workbook, but I didn't have time to go through 50 pages of stuff, I want to print it but don't have the place to do that yet. I also looked through the the faq and couldn't find anything useful.
I am going to create a test bed soon so that I can see if it was just some malfunction with out old robot. I also just re download the code to see if thats it even though I don't think I touched it.

And thanks for all the help, its really...helpful!
Thanks
Josh

[Oumonkey]

Well, I tried the code again and it doesn't work. The loader keeps on showing "no camera" I tried both versions of the code without changing it. I am wondering if its the camera itself or if it hooked up wrong. I am reinstalling labview to test it out.

Thanks
Josh

[Bharat Nain]

Originally Posted by Oumonkey

Well, I tried the code again and it doesn't work. The loader keeps on showing "no camera" I tried both versions of the code without changing it. I am wondering if its the camera itself or if it hooked up wrong. I am reinstalling labview to test it out.

Thanks
Josh

Read the book on Kevin's website. Follow instructions VERY CLOSELY and it will work, unless your camera is defective/you fried it. Someone once said, if nothing works, read the manual.

[Oumonkey]

Thanks for all the help, but I guess I let the main reason for the thread to get lost. I had last years camera working but we decided not to use it then. I am still trying to different things to get it to work but that is not a major concern of mine. The overheating of that IC is what I'm concerned about. We are a poor team so to use the camera when its overheating, isn't something we want to do without knowing if its safe. So if someone has any ideas of what to do, or how to fix it, that would be greatly appreciated. Sorry for the Mix up.

Thanks
Josh

[Alan Anderson]

Originally Posted by Oumonkey

...The overheating of that IC is what I'm concerned about...

Are you talking about the voltage regulator? If it's getting very hot, you might have mounted the camera to the pan/tilt assembly without enough spacers and ended up shorting the board to the aluminum.

How exactly are you powering the camera?

[Oumonkey]

I didn't put the camera together so, thats the first thing I'll check, but I am pretty sure it is elevated but I'm not to sure if that makes a difference. And I'm not sure if its the voltage regulator or not. I'll see If I can find out. I'm about to go so I'll get back on soon, to tell you if its that or not.

EDIT : Well I tried the old camera and the IC, voltage regulator?, still got hot, I removed the casing and it still was hot. I am getting pretty confused right now about it. I guess I should also mention, that this test bed has last years RC. I am currently working on this years RC. But I'd still like some more Ideas or more things to test for.

Thanks
Josh