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Re: Transmitting Pictures
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lugnet.robotics
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Mon, 29 Nov 1999 10:42:49 GMT
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Marco C. <MARCO@SOPORCELantispam.PT>
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At 08:05 29-11-1999 GMT, you wrote:
> In lugnet.robotics, gombos@ne.infi.net writes:
> > Does anybody know if you can send pictures over the IR link from a
> > webcam or something like it?
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> Of course you can! If there's a will, there's a way! :-)
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> Seriously, it is possible to send any kind of data via the IR link, but it • will
> be VERY slow! Not at all useful for anything even remotely close to
> real-time...
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> There is another problem also: how to interface the webcam with the RCX? I
> don't see any way of doing that...
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> Practical solutions are:
> - let the robot carry the webcam with a long cable to the PC...
> - have a laptop on the robot, and attach the webcam to it; maybe use a
> wireless network to link the laptop to a PC...
Use the XCam Kit ? (www.x10.com)
The wireless (2.4GHz) receiver attached to your *video*-card's *video-in*.
I think the wireless transmitter is mains based, but, one could get a way
to work out of batteries.
I'm waiting for an european version of it, for my LEGObots+WirelessCam
projects.
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Marco C. aka McViper
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Message has 1 Reply:
 | | RE: Transmitting Pictures
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| I am in the final stages of integrating the X10 video cam with a mindstorms robot that runs about the house. I have adapted the X10 camera to run off of a large Lego battery box instead of a having the cam plugged in. The X10 camera sends video to (...) (25 years ago, 29-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Transmitting Pictures
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| Does anybody know if you can send pictures over the IR link from a webcam or something like it? The other messages in the Wireless Robots thread hinted at this, so I was wondering if it could be done. Andy (25 years ago, 28-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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