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Re: Vision Command + other cameras
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lugnet.robotics
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Thu, 9 Nov 2000 22:34:11 GMT
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Mike Burger wrote:
> Mars Explorer seems quite happy to use any camera windows has, it is
> even happy to find and use my Pinnacle video capture card.
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> Vision Command on the other hand, was NOT happy.
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> I had the Logitek QuickCam Pro USB up and running on my system quite well.
> The first thing Lego VC did at install was announce that all my Logitek
> software was "obsolete" and deleted it. It provided me with a nice half-ass
> link to where I could struggle through a 14.7 megabyte download to replace
> it. Then it proceeded to install, stopping at the critical point to
> wait for me to plug in the Lego camera which it examined in detail before
> proceeding, after I had unplugged my QuickCam Pro.
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> If you look in the Mars Explorer book, there is a camera pictured, I think
> it is called the Logitek WebCam. The Lego camera is a repackage of the
> guts of one of the quick cam series. It includes a USB microphone. The
> camera pictured I believe does also, and ugly thing shaped like a Claymore
> mine, white, curved front, no protruding lens, rectangular. It is possible
> that there is a Logitek camera model that the drivers will recognize as
> the Lego Camera, but apparently not just any Logitek camera will do. It
> certainly made short work of erasing mine for me at VC install time.
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> If you look at the Mars Explorer package, there is a deep pocket not really
> used that is shaped suspiciously like the size and shape of the camera
> pictured in the Mars book which I think is a Logitek product, perhaps
> the one whose electronic guts were transplanted to the Lego Camera.
That's odd. My Mars set didn't have any packaging in it all all. Everything was
just thrown in the box and shipped...
Dean
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