Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!bu.edu!bass!ardai From: ardai@bass.bu.edu (Michael Ardai) Newsgroups: comp.robotics Subject: Re: New Robot stuff Message-ID: <58191@bu.edu.bu.edu> Date: 3 Jun 90 04:51:43 GMT References: <136564@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> Sender: news@bu.edu.bu.edu Organization: Boston University Lines: 26 In article <136564@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> cmcmanis@stpeter.Eng.Sun.COM (Chuck McManis) writes: >The other bit is in this month's Radio-Electronics (June). There is an >advertisement for a CCD based "peep hole" camera that can see well in >a variety of light situations. It uses .8 Watts, needs only 12V input >and is only 1" X 2" X 3" in size. (A bit larger than a deck of cards) >I didn't get the manufacturer but this issue should be easy to find. >It is the one that has Part II on building a robot to mow your lawn. There is an add for one in the latest Nuts & Volts from Mitchell Industries for $324.95 (ouch!) Two less-expensive sources for these small CCD cameras are Sanyo (who makes the chip set that these are all using) and Uniden. Sanyo has a developer's board for $190 that sounds very much like the one from Mitchell. Uniden sells a slightly larger version (fewer ASICs, more discretes on the board) complete with a 5" monitor as a baby watcher/peephole. DAK carried this one for $149. /mike >-- >--Chuck McManis Sun Microsystems >uucp: {anywhere}!sun!cmcmanis BIX: Internet: cmcmanis@Eng.Sun.COM \|/ Michael L. Ardai ardai@bu-pub.bu.edu --- --------------------------------------------------------------- /|\ ...!sun!teda!maven.dnet!ardai (preferred)