Society of Robots - Robot Forum
Electronics => Electronics => Topic started by: sonictj on June 03, 2008, 12:01:25 PM
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I am what is considered a noob. I bought a arduino board recently and I keep coming up with robot designes I want to build, but they all would greatly benefit from a camera. I have my eye on the CMU CAM 3. I plan on using the CMU CAM 2 emulation at first, and then make my own algorithms. I've looked into the avr cam too, but it sounds like I would have more trouble making it work.
Anyways I wanted to know if anyone has interfaced the CMU CAM 3 to an arduino diecimila before, and do I have to do anything more than just get a serial to usb cord to run the camera on the diecimila. (The arduino's UART is USB).
Some plans on how I will use the camera.
1. making a robot you can play fetch with lol via a ball of a specific color.
2. a good line follower.
and many other things I can't think of right now.
NOTE. I know i can do those things with other cameras. I just want the investment of a camera I can program totally myself.
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has anyone used a cmu cam with an arduino usb board?
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You won't be able to connect to the camera via USB . . .
But, if you aren't using USB, you can connect the tx/rx wires directly from the ATmega to the tx/rx of your camera. You'd have to disconnect it however if you wanted to use the USB . . .
My ERP uses the Blackfin Camera, which is cheaper than the CMUcam3 . . .
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Thanks I'll look into that Blackfin camera too.