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Offline goatfishTopic starter

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web camera(usb connection) to use with lego mindstorms rcx
« on: February 16, 2008, 10:38:14 PM »
i need help with the robot i am building at school.i want to attach a web-camera to it and it is usb connection,i want to know how to attatch it to the robot(tankbot) .Can some please help. ???
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Re: web camera(usb connection) to use with lego mindstorms rcx
« Reply #1 on: February 16, 2008, 10:59:36 PM »
get a wireless USB hub[url]
http://www.buy.com/prod/belkin-wireless-usb-hub/q/loc/101/205557488.html[/url


or just get a regular RF camera and watch it on TV

please give us more details about ur situation and robot
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Re: web camera(usb connection) to use with lego mindstorms rcx
« Reply #2 on: February 17, 2008, 02:32:43 AM »
Lego sells a Vision Command kit that has a Lego webcam (USB connector to the PC). You can't connect it directly to the RCX. The main problem of that webcam is that the wire is too thick and rigid that a light weight robot can't pull it sometimes. There are people on internet that have used a different camera with the RCX (something like the CMUcam on a IR to I2C converter). You may find more info at http://www.restena.lu/convict/Jeunes/RCXCam/RCXCam_Journal.htm
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Re: web camera(usb connection) to use with lego mindstorms rcx
« Reply #3 on: February 17, 2008, 05:47:56 AM »
hmm, what are the chances of emulating an USB host with a pic/avr and working with that?
(considering a webcam is a HID device and the protocol is standardised, which i doubt..)
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Re: web camera(usb connection) to use with lego mindstorms rcx
« Reply #4 on: February 19, 2008, 12:37:08 AM »
i want to know how do you attach it to the crx?
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Re: web camera(usb connection) to use with lego mindstorms rcx
« Reply #5 on: February 19, 2008, 12:38:30 AM »
sorry rcx!
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