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Low Resolution Camera

A project log for InspectorBot

An open source robot to inspect under vehicles, crawl spaces and any other dark dirty space you need to take a look at.

dennisDennis 06/26/2017 at 01:340 Comments

InspectorBot will need a forward facing low resolution camera so the user will be able to drive the robot when the robot is in an area such as crawl spaces where the user cannot see the robot. I found a cheap mini USB camera on ebay. Below is the camera.

I wasn’t sure if the camera would work with a Raspberry PI so I wrote a short program using Pygame to test it. Below is the program and an image of the program running with the mini camera plugged into one of the Raspberry PIs USB ports. It works well with a Raspberry PI.

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