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a much less expensive approach is to use a wireless camera and a wireless serial link (via bluetooth or XBee or similar) along with RoboRealm. RoboRealm is free vision processing software that runs on your PC. Your PC can do all the analysis and simply send simple serial commnands to your robot.
Quote from: Steve Joblin on December 15, 2007, 07:28:15 AMa much less expensive approach is to use a wireless camera and a wireless serial link (via bluetooth or XBee or similar) along with RoboRealm. RoboRealm is free vision processing software that runs on your PC. Your PC can do all the analysis and simply send simple serial commnands to your robot.Thats an interesting approach. It would even be able to provide better results, much better. Unfortunately, it isn't as mobile. You need to have your computer near the robot or at least a laptop with you. If you choose the "normal" approach i would choose the AVRcam. Maybe thats just because I'm such an fan of open source, but seriously, the CMUcam have been stated pretty poor, at least the CMUcam 1 (the latter versions looks really awesome though).
i thought the CMUcam 2 was also open source
can you interface AVR cameras directly with the $50 robot microcontroller? If so how would you connect it?