The subject pretty much says what I am up to here. :slight_smile: I want to mount one of these [Blackfin Camera Board](http://www.surveyor.com/blackfin/) on a pan/tilt base that is to be mounted on the front of the top deck of W.A.L.T.E.R. I don't know what the mounting arrangement of the [Blackfin Camera Board](http://www.surveyor.com/blackfin/) is though or if any of the mounting holes would mate up or could be made to mate up (perhaps with a custom SES bracket) to the simple Lynxmotion SES pan/tilt base.
The [Blackfin Camera Board](http://www.surveyor.com/blackfin/) would be connected to the TCT Hammer (the MCP on W.A.L.T.E.R.). I also want to fiddle with object tracking where the [Blackfin Camera Board](http://www.surveyor.com/blackfin/) would directly control the pan/tilt base it is on.
I received the 5 servos and Lynxmotion Little Grip to complete assembly of the front mounted arm on W.A.L.T.E.R. Now I just have to figure out what extender cables I need to get all the signals and servo cables up to the main electronics deck (deck 3). I am still considering whether to move the arm to deck 2 and extend the spacing between decks 1 and 2 to a full 2 1/2" or not.
I need to get some I2C level shifting chips to translate the 3.3V levels to 5V levels for standard sensors, such as the [Sharp IR Rangers](http://www.lynxmotion.com/Product.aspx?productID=260&CategoryID=8) and [PING ultrasonic sensors](http://www.lynxmotion.com/Product.aspx?productID=492&CategoryID=8). I've located the chips I need for I2C level translation at Digi-Key. Then I just have to handle translating levels for standard non-I2C sensors between 3.3V and 5V.
Any feedback would be appreciated, as always. I have not yet got a [Blackfin Camera Board](http://www.surveyor.com/blackfin/), but think this is the way I want to go for vision and visual tracking on W.A.L.T.E.R.
8-Dale
I see that you are looking at the Blackfin Camera as well. I’ve been wanting to get the Black Fin Camera with the WiFi for a while now, just trying to save my money until I can afford it.
I’ve even been looking around for an alternative to the Blackfin Camera, but for what it does, and all the features it’s hard to beat. Before I saw the Blackfin I was thinking about just getting a Wifi Camera and use something like roborealm to control it, but then my bot would not be processing images “on-board”.
As far as the pan/tilt base goes, I was thinking about going with acroname.com/robotics/parts/ … URRET.html this setup. I think someone else had modified the Blackfin to mount to it without too much trouble.
If you look at the assembly instructions, you’ll see it is not put together entirely with screws. There is some tape involved, unless they have changed that. I don’t like taping things for a final assembly.
For small board cams, you can make a pan/tilt for little more than the cost of the cams and servos (bottom). You can operate this pan/tilt cam at the below link.
