alexsleat/projectChimaera — Issue #43: Downward facing camera
Author: GarethG
Created: 2011-12-24 23:29:34+00:00
State: open
Labels: Hardware

We could do with a downward facing camera so we can follow the pipe which always seems like one of the easier tasks. I was thinking of buying a network camera, you can even get pan/tilt ones for pretty cheap and try and enclose it in some 10mm thick acrylic. We've tried passing USB through the hull and it does work but it can be a bit on the sketchy side.

How about this camera?
http://www.ebuyer.com/260605-xenta-wireless-night-and-day-wireless-ip-network-camera-ip11wcolor?utm_source=google&utm_medium=products

5volt supply, it'll do 30fps at 320x240, the pan/tilt allows us to do static scans of the sea bed, it could be scanning the floor while the sub has stopped for a sonar scan, tasty.