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Permalink Reply by Danny on August 28, 2010 at 2:00pm

Hi Roel,

I have a bit of knowledge on the topic - what is it you are trying to do? Maybe I can help out or at least point you in the right direction.

-danny

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Permalink Reply by Roel Alblas on August 28, 2010 at 2:15pm

I have found a camera with a RCA output and like to convert it into a byte array and back. So I can send it over Zigbee.

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Permalink Reply by Danny on August 28, 2010 at 10:54pm

So does this mean you still need some assistance with this or no?

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Permalink Reply by Roel Alblas on August 29, 2010 at 4:51am

Yes, I need assistance!

I can't use the camera because I don't know how to convert a RCA signal.

Wich camera did you use?

Excuses for not being clear!

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Permalink Reply by Danny on August 29, 2010 at 5:47am

Ok,

I would need to know the entire configuration you have set up. Are you using an adruino? What microcontroller? How is it all interfaced? What are you coding in? Please provide further information so that I may give you an appropriate response.

-Danny

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Permalink Reply by Roel Alblas on August 29, 2010 at 3:03pm

Thanks!

I am going to use a configuration that is not yet really known. It will be in the .NET Micro Framework. I am going to use the Netduino (www.netduino.com). I like to get the video over serial but heard that this is not possible because of the baudrate. So I think it will be WiFi.

I have found the following camera:

http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=8773

But it has a RCA output that I don't know.

If you don't have experience with this configuration, can you tell me your configuration and how you did it?

Roel

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Permalink Reply by Roel Alblas on September 14, 2010 at 4:44am

The uC on the NetDuino is way to small to encode and decode the video. RCA is analog so should be encoded to digital and that uses 'some' resources. The configuration I have chosen above is not going to work.

Nevertheless thanks!

Roel

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Permalink Reply by Danny on September 14, 2010 at 2:38pm

Roel,

What we have done on previous projects when it came to video is that we used a combination of a microcontroller such as the netduino and an embedded system with wifi capabilities.

We have used the eBox 4300, laptops, and we are planning on doing two projects in the coming months with video - our plan right now is to use either a roboboard, gadget pc or beagleboard to accomplish this. Either way - the cameras are not connected directly to the microcontroller - rather - they are connected to the embedded system.

The nice thing about this approach is we can purchase any off the shelf webcam for our video purposes instead of something custom.

Hope this helps.

-Danny

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Permalink Reply by Cerberus on January 27, 2011 at 12:03pm

what configuration did you wind up going with? im working on a project that involves low light vision and would love to see what you have going on on your end

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