Adding a Raspberry Pi Camera to Elf the Robot

[mikronauts]

Robots are a lot of fun.

Robots that stream video over WiFi are even more fun!

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Today I’ve updated my Elf Raspberry Pi based robot’s build log with instructions on:

• adding a Raspberry Pi Camera
• adding MJPG-Streamer so Elf streams what he sees over WiFi
• adding a ramdisk for MJPG-Streamer so it won’t wear out the SD card

I hope you enjoy the Elf blog, and please feel free to ask any questions!

Elf Article Index

• Meet Elf
• Power supply & Development
• Building Elf: RoboPi, Servos, Sensors, Analog In
• Connecting the Motor Controller & Range Sensor, Sample Code & more
• Adding a Raspberry Pi Camera to Elf
• Installing & Using MJPG-Streamer

[silux]

Mjpg streaming can go up to

Mjpg streaming can go up to 60fps with raspi camera; look for “motion” and change the config file to show 60fps.

[deshipu]

You probably want to take a
You probably want to take a look at the last example in this section of the camera’s documentation: http://picamera.readthedocs.org/en/release-1.10/recipes1.html#recording-to-a-network-stream

[mikronauts]

Elf

Thanks, I’ll check those links out.

I managed to get h.264 going, I am curently getting 24fps at 720p

http://www.mikronauts.com/robot-zoo/elf-2wd-pi-robot/7/