RoboSavvy Forum Robosavvy Forum: The largest online community of Humanoid Robot Builders 2012-12-15T13:57:04+01:00 http://forum.robosavvy.com/feed.php?f=21&t=8977 2012-12-15T13:57:04+01:00 2012-12-15T13:57:04+01:00 http://forum.robosavvy.com/viewtopic.php?t=8977&p=36749#p36749 <![CDATA[Testing of BCM26P Tiny Camera for my Bot!]]>
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About the camera - the back of it does get quite warm. Also, picture is oriented upright when wires are pointing up.

For mounting, I'll cut a hole for the round part of the camera body. As you can see, the black plastic is round at the front, up to a square base - the mount will be flush with the square base. I'll swap out the rigid wiring on the camera with something more flexible so as not to strain the connection. Signals on the camera are Vid out, Gnd, and Power (3 to 5v).

Statistics: Posted by PaulL — Sat Dec 15, 2012 1:57 pm

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The camera is VERY tiny, something I can integrate into the head of my RN1. I searched high and low for a camera board that would fit in the head, and this is more than suitable.

Not a bad camera, I'm actually fairly impressed for the price and particularly for the size.

http://www.pcsurveillance.net/bcm26p-1-8-dsp-color-cdc-board-420-tvl-1-lux-3-7mm-pinhole-lens-dc-3-5v/

I'll de-shell the USB-Live2 to save some space and direct wire both the camera and the capture device to do away with the bulky cables.

The camera doesn't compare to modern digital cameras, but it doesn't have to. I think this will do fine as a low bandwidth source for vision data to process. :)

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Statistics: Posted by PaulL — Fri Dec 14, 2012 12:40 pm

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