Any USB camera will work. The Add-Ons page talks a bit about it.

However, the camera in the link you provided is not a USB camera.

If your robot will be sporting many peripherals (i.e. sound card, camera) then consider locating a Wireless USB Hub within the robot. The add-on page discusses it.

Is it possible to attach a non-wifi camera? By using the EZB'S bluetooth to transfer the camera live?

• Mix3rn

Hi Mix3m

The EZB's bluetooth doesn't have sufficient bandwidth for a video camera. Think of it as a very smart controller system.

You really need something with a USB output to easily plug this into your controlling PC/Laptop.

There are other webcams that are 2.4Ghz with a little USB receiver dongle although I haven't seen anything as small and cute as the little one shown above and it is a good price worldwide

The USB hub that DJSures talks about would be great but looks to be difficult to source in the UK however other new 5.8Ghz devices are startiing to appear so this is an area worth keeping an eye on. I very nearly have a Skype enabled bot (well the vision works which is rather cool)

You guys may need more "fire power" when opening your webcams. Look at the link below (for some reason I couldnt add the photo here confused) and you'll see that mine came with a HUGE blob of epoxy inside that prevented any opening. I ended up resorted to my Dremel and carefully cut away the back of the camera.

Picture Linky

Hi TXTCLA55

This takes me back. I remember having difficulty prising mine apart. I got a thin bladed screwdriver and inserted it between the plastic back and metal case then twisted the srewdriver I'm a bit surprised you had to resort to a Dremel!. The gunge inside is more like a sealant which can be pulled off or cut away. The silver lens cover also comes off with care. DJ moved my pics to his server above as I think you have to host them somewhere else 1st

Intested to hear how you get with your webcam mine doesn't work in direct sunlight its too bright and seems to be setup for indoor lighting?. Its got great range though and interfaces easily into ARC

I did try the screwdriver method, if I still had the plastic back piece I'd show you how many times I have tried that. I think I'll keep the silver lens cover on however...just looks nice.

As for the project well, I cant revel too much about what I am doing (its a suprise ), but I'll let you guys know how the project handles in sunlight.

AK yes you can get that camera on ebay but DJ sells it here on his site too.

Hi, I'm about t buy the EZ-Bot but would like to know if I can use a smaller (pinhole) 2.4ghz camera instead of the one in the kit as I would really like to have it sort of hidden so both the bots eyes can glow and look the same. We (my daughter and I) are building a scale Wall-e from scratch, my daughter of 9 years is totally Wall-e mad and saw some Wall-e robots on the net and asked me If I could build her one, as I have been into RC everything for over 25 years and run a small hobby shop on line, have a fully decked workshop the actual construction is the easy part. But as far as the electronics go it's a whole new learning thing (not the servos, motor etc) It's stuff like the sensors,pcb's and programming it all. If there were just 8 or 9 servos/motors being radio controlled that would be fairly east but it is a different story when we have 20 or so servos that have to all run in sync along with cameras,sensors, sound cards etc is a whole new ball game.

Anyway I will probably be asking heaps of questions. hope you guys don't mind.

Thanks, and will post pics of the project as we go if people are interested.

Richard & Phoebe

P.S. most of the main carcase, tracks and drive servos(large converted) are done.