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
If your using an embedded computer then yes you can use a usb webcam without the trigger from the ez-b. Do watch out what type of web cam it is cause people have had problems with HD cams, I have an internal HP TrueVision HD on my labtop and it works fine with ARC.
Logitech cams seem to be the best brand for USB plug n play cams , they even have one that has a pan and tilt gimble which I bet would be really cool for ezb
Im going to look into the logitech and hp truevision hd. I might have a cheapo webcam sitting around somewhere that might be worth trying too. This is a little off topic from the camera but i was thinking about embedded computers. An embedded computer might be easier for sounds because one could use speakers plugged into the motherboard instead of having a mp3 trigger. My questions is once the robot is all buttoned up and done, how do you pair the computer and ez-board? Would you need a seperate screen, mouse, and keyboard to set everything up? I don't know too much about computers but this was one of my questions about using embedded computing.
I did a embedded computer , not hard at all. Then you can trigger mp3 play out the speaker out from board. Yes for initial setup and software installation you must have keyboard and mouse plugged in. I just put my plugs behind the accessories door
After initial setup you can remote desktop for tweeking , adding features and things like that. Because if you have an itx board you probably want your bot to be autonomous. Mini itx boards are 6.5 x 6.5 inches so they can fit in really small areas. Plus many micro atx boards have WiFi, sound and Bluetooth built in like mine
. You can get atom dual core motherboards cheap and ultra low power consumption.