Re: [Gumstix-users] UAV project involving gphoto and usb host

[Dean V <the...@gm...>]

The plan right now is to us some camera that supports PTP (the one I'm
voting for is a Canon...mebbe A610, it's fairly light and still
supposedly has 2 frames a second) and have the pictures be 1.3
Megapixels, around 300KB.

On 2/13/06, Stephen Dennis <sd...@en...> wrote:
> Hello
>
> What size picture do you need to move every second, and
> what sort of camera are you planning on using?
>
> Thanks
>
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I'm involved in a UAV project and we need to do a couple things, and
> > I'm wondering if anyone has done them or can suggest anything. We (as
> > in the UAV team&#8230; www.teamskylark.com ) haven't decided whether to=
 buy
> > the gumstix or not yet, and the decision hangs on whether the
> > following things will work.
> >
> > The idea is for the gumstix to be running libgphoto and gphoto2, and
> > it also needs a high enough speed USB connection to interface with a
> > camera and download a picture a second. (Preferable 2 pictures a
> > second, but 1/s is enough)
> >
> > So the problem I'm having is getting a hi-speed USB host running. The
> > CF-USB cards seem a bit expensive everywhere I look, and it seems as
> > though some people have discussed using a Philips usb host chip and
> > interfacing it with the PXA255, but no one has said that they have a
> > hi-speed one up and running.
> >
> > If anyone has any experience using libgphoto (Or is interested in
> > trying to compile it and test it...) with gumstix, or best case
> > scenario, someone who has done something like this, I'd love to hear
> > from you.
> >
> > Also, I was wondering if anyone has found a good deal on the CF-USB car=
ds.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
>
>
>
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