someone took a $12 VGA camera and ported it to two of the 12 pin PMOD connectors on the zedboard.
http://hamsterworks.co.nz/mediawiki/index.php/OV7670_camera (there are at least enough pmod connectors on the board to have two such cameras in the system) >>As many of you know, I have a robot project. >>http://www.linuxpcrobot.org/ >>Over the years I have tried to keep the robot as a viable platform and >>maintain development costs to the sub $500 range. > > Well, I would say that the $500 is somewhat arbitrary > in that it doesn't seem to take into account the > time and energy that others would need to assemble > your system and debug it. > > If you want a design that raises the material cost a little bit > but *dramatically* drops the labor others need to spend > to take your design and implement it themselves, > then you might consider the zedboard. > > http://www.zedboard.org/content/key-features > > Zedboard. Dual ARM® Cortex-A9 MPCore, > half a gig of DDR3, ethernet, usb, HDMI, > and over a million gates equivaent of FPGA fabric. > > You can run linux on the processors > and put all the vision processing hardware you want > in the FPGA fabric. > > You'll also have available stuff like CANBUS ports, > so you can use standard motor controllers such as this: > > http://www.vexrobotics.com/vexpro/motor-controllers/217-3367.html > > Then you can run the control software in the ARM > on linux, but have a motor controller that will keep > the robot from burning itself out if the software crashes > or gets stuck in a loop or something. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Hardwarehacking mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/hardwarehacking > -- _______________________________________________ Hardwarehacking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/hardwarehacking
