In this project i will be working on streaming the image on a simple usb based webcam, hooked up to an bed, which then sends the data using UART to a 4d ulcd - 144 which can display the video feed as well as possibly log the video. the reason why i am going through the bed is because i would like to expand on this project some day. adding more sensors, as well as the ulcd does not support usb interfacing.

Materials used. logitech c200 webcam. mbed lpc1768 uLCD-144 G2

Distracted Chaos

I was hoping at the thrift stores for a portable tape player to tear down and construct a beam bot. When all of a sudden I found a webcam for $1. and i was like heck yea. I then went to another thrift store and found another webcam for $5. i ended up buying that one aswell. morel of the story, there is gold in them there thrift stores.( few days latter i got another web cam for $1. The first $1 web cam i was to hasty to crack it open to see what it had in side. I ended up ripping of some contact pads which i must now fix. that one and the five dollar one have controllers on them to do some processing of the data is my guess. but the last camera is plain jane. so with all of these cameras I want to interface them with the bed.

Problem #1 What does the webcam send for information?

Assuming that I can pull this off. I have been doing a lot of reading. especially how early usb devices where mostly hardware and put pressure on the software guys to get the device to work. but now more and more usb devices have some software built into them to help the software engineers out a bit. so where am i going with this? If i can figure out how to write a basic driver to take the data from my barebones webcam and convert the data into a file type that the screen can display i will be laughing.

On Hold till computer is fixed