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Re: Cameras & RCX Robots, no cables please!
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lugnet.robotics
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Thu, 3 Jul 2003 04:01:15 GMT
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Steve Baker <sjbaker1@airmail.&IHateSpam&net>
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Richard Diaz wrote:
> Are there any solutions to have a completly autonomous
> (no computer) camera or web-cam on an RCX bot. How
> could it interact with the RCX? IR port? Anything
> else?
Well, the compute power and memory capacity of the RCX
aren't gonna allow much in the way of image processing,
so even if you could somehow interface the camera, I
don't know what you could do with the image it captures.
What I've suggested (but havn't tried) in the past
is using the camera that 'ThinkGeek' sells:
http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/toys/59eb/
...it's tiny - runs off a 9v battery and broadcasts
an NTSC signal that any TV reciever can pick up.
So, you SHOULD be able to install a TV tuner card into
your PC and receive the signal from the camera. Software
in your PC can do image recognition - then send the
results of that work to the robot via the Lego IR link.
The Lego link isn't fast enough to send video - but
since the PC is probably needed to do the processing
anyway - that's no great loss the RCX can just be told
the coordinates of the target - or which way to turn
or whatever.
> I just refuse to run a robot with a camera cable
> attached to it.
Yes - that certainly needs to be avoided - but having
the PC help out with the heavy processing may be a
necessary evil.
There are probably cheaper sources for the ThinkGeek camera.
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