Hey im working on my hexapod, and it has a head for some sensors, but i was wondering if i would be able to use a iphone or android camera on it as well? I want it to take pictures, as well as send video through to a tv or computer screen so you could look at the screen and control it. My electronics for the hexapod are the ssc-32 and arduino mega (maybe). I know the arduino cant buffer something like that. The reason im asking is that iPhone and android cameras are high quality and fairly cheap. I can get a shattered iphone 4 for about 40-50 bucks here. The camera is really compact too.
So my question is what board can i use to send video output through my hexapod to a computer monitor or tv (usb, and once it works through usb, wireless)? And has anyone ever done this before?
I did some research, and i got that the raspberrypi is powerful enough to not only have a video output, but to also be able to capture and output video in HD. Ill update this more as to using a iPhone camera or android camera with the raspberry pi.
I already talked about most of this on your other thread, but thought I would throw out a couple of other thoughts. I am not sure of what all you wish to do with the camera images. If you simply wish to view the image/stream elsewhere and not do any local processing of it, you could simply use a webcam. There are many people who do it that way, including a lot who do Mechwar types of things. I know there are lots of threads up on Trossen Robotics talking about this, including: forums.trossenrobotics.com/showt … ght=webcam
Currently on my Orion Robotics Rover, which currently has a BeagleBone Black processor on it, I have a real simple USB camera. amazon.com/Logitech-C300-Web … 300+webcam
I currently have it such that I can stream video from it using the software: mjpg-streamer . Again my notes have comments about how to download this package. Soon I am going to do some more local video processing, such as using OpenCV and/or OpenNI or the like and will be using a new camera which is like the Kinect sensor of the XBox360. I know that KevinO pretty well maxed out his RPI doing this and has upgraded to a new processor. I will try it using the Odroid U2. The RPI runs at something like 700mhz and can be overclocked up to maybe 1qhz. The U2 is a quad core processor with 4 times as much memory running at 1.7ghz and can be overclocked some if necessary.
My goal was to have the head of my bot have the camera on it, and there would be a servo is let it move left and right. What i was looking at was this: canada.newark.com/raspberry-pi/r … dp/69W0689
I want the camera to stream video to my computer (and later android) so i can see where the robot is going and control it within a certain distance, from say another room in my house.
It will be interesting to see the RPI camera when it comes out. Not sure if it is shipping anywhere yet? Also not sure how long before we get any in the states…
If all you want is a video stream going to a computer or the like, with no local processing, you can easily go with any main processor, like an Arduino you want and as I mentioned before go with a webcam. That is what a lot of the Mech war robots do. Awhile ago the most popular one on some of the forums was the Trendnet IP-110W, but I know that one has been discontinued, not sure which one they use now… The Wifi cameras are more expensive, but it keeps you from having to add wifi to your RPI…
But of course having the ability to do some local processing is fun!
Kurt
