Re: Image processing with RCX

steve <[email protected]> Tue, 07 Nov 2006 02:52:49 -0600
Newsgroups gmane.comp.hardware.lego.robotics
Message-ID <[email protected]>
manyak20055 wrote:

> I wanna use a camera to understand path while robot is moving.

No...I don't think you do.

> But i don't know how to do this? I think there is a camera in lego. But is
> RCX enough to process these datas or i need to connect camera to computer?

The RCX has nowhere near enough memory to deal with images from cameras.

The Lego camera connects to your PC through a cable - so it's not
much use for mobile robots.  The PC could do image processing and
send the results off to the RCX - but the cable is a major problem here.

> And are there anyone try this before? Is this possible, i mean image
> processing with Java(lejos) and with only RCX proccessors.

The RAM limitations would kill you - even presuming you could find
a way to hook the camera up to the RCX...which you can't.

The RCX's CPU is kinda slow too - image processing would never really
be fast enough for most robotic applications.