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Computer controlled RCX pan/tilt webcam
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Newsgroups:
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lugnet.robotics
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Date:
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Tue, 9 Mar 1999 08:42:19 GMT
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Original-From:
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Erik Walthinsen <OMEGA@stopspammersCSE.OGI.EDU>
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About a month ago I spent a couple evenings building a pan/tilt head
around a Color QuickCam and an RCX, and a few more days building the
necessary software. It's been operational now for at least 3 weeks, and I
just got a rudimentary web page built for it, so I figured I might as well
announce it.
The pan/tilt head holds a camera that supplies a picture to some webcam
software, which is on the page. In order to keep traffic low and my
system from dying, please hit 'Stop' or the escape key within a minute or
so of loading the page, so it stops grabbing data.
You can find the page at http://www.cse.ogi.edu/~omega/260cam/
REMEMBER: please stop the webcam after a minute, so I don't get thwacked
by the network people.
I hope to add CGI to control the camera at some point in the future, but
for now it's pointed manually from the C program linked at the bottom of
the page. Also beware that this camera can rotate to view public areas
and the insides of a few cubicles (primarily mine), so once I have CGI set
up, I may have to restrict control to inside the OGI network, and or
provide a 'privacy' button under the camera. Suggestions welcomed.
As a result, it'll be pointed at my cube for the next while.
TTYL,
Omega
Erik Walthinsen <omega@cse.ogi.edu> - Staff Programmer @ OGI
Quasar project - http://www.cse.ogi.edu/DISC/projects/quasar/
Video4Linux Two drivers and stuff - http://www.cse.ogi.edu/~omega/v4l2/
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