Hi
Im new to building robots and starting work on my omnibot build. I am a mechanical engineering student so making the robot mechanically has been a blast but actually making it talk to the computer will be interesting lol I'm working on the camera right now and am having a little trouble. I've read other posts and wired it up so I do not have to utilize the lipo battery. I set the digital port and can activate/deactivate the blue led using the digital control. When I go into the control, camera device, I cannot find the wireless camera listed. I have the webcam, ar drone, and rover. I tried connecting the camera between the USB and computer to see if there was an installation that had to be done but nothing seemed to happen. Any suggestions would be really appreciated
Oh and I think a search window for the forums would be a great addition. It's not too bad now to go back and look things up but eventually it may be a real pain to sift through each forum.
Thanks
There is a search window for the forums. It is right above the list of recent posts on the right hand side
When you plugged in the "dongle" from the camera into USB it should have installed drivers. The USB port on the camera itself is just for charging. If it didn't install drivers, first thing would be to just try another USB port if you have one. If not, then it gets a bit more complicated since you need to go into your device manager and see if there is a non-working device, uninstall it, and then try to re-install the drivers.
If you are using Windows 7, you should not need the CD that came with the camera, although it does have a nice little utility called AmCap that can be used for testing the camera (or any Windows camera). If you have XP, you probably do need the drivers from the CD, and you also need to upgrade to Windows 7
Alan
Thank you for the reply!
I should've looked closer for the search button there. oops eyeroll
I have windows 7. I uninstalled the camera software from the computer and installed it again. Now I can select the USB video device. However when i select it, the red grids appear but no picture.
Silly but did you turn the camera on?
yes both the red and blue lights come on. when i turn activate the digital port the blue light comes on and a little message on the bottom of the screen saying that the camera is activated but no picture or readings in the camera device. when i deactivate the digital port the blue light goes out. That seems correct? and the red light is on as long as the ez-b has power
Did you install the driver from the cd or let windows detect it?
seems "sometimes" people have issues with the cd driver. i don't know why that is. it's best to let windows install it. i should just stop shipping the cd all together
@robot56 I am having the same issues with my camera. Any assistance is appreciated.
Plug in USB to.USB adapter included and let.it charge about 4 hours , it won't work on low batt.
I read that the battery was sometimes causing problems when wired to the ez-board and that they were cutting them out. I went ahead and cut out the battery so I'm only using power from the ez-b. I used the disk to install the program. I will uninstall it from the computer and let windows detect it and see if that resolves the problem.
If I plan to add an on board computer to my robot could I plug a webcam with a cord straight from the USB to the board to bypass the ezb? Like using the webcam that comes in my laptop which is working awesome. If that could work I might buy the motherboard sooner than expected lol