USB webcam support

Gus_Issa · May 17, 2011, 3:04pm

We promised 2 new and free surprises to our great community.

The first one is that GHI has added USB webcam support. This will be available in coming SDK, possible next week.
The second surprise come very soon…can you guess what it is?

Here is a video as a proof

Architect · May 17, 2011, 3:13pm

Impressive!

heav3n · May 17, 2011, 3:26pm

AWESOME ! Just what I wanted!

Nicolas3 · May 17, 2011, 3:53pm

Nice !
Will it be also available on the small devices Domino/Panda ?

Colin_Raaijmakers · May 17, 2011, 4:01pm

Looking good! Say cheese 8)

Sam · May 17, 2011, 4:21pm

Wonderful!

I would ask the same question as well.

My guess for the second surprise would be “Video Decoder” or “video player”??

Gus_Issa · May 17, 2011, 4:44pm

As of now, this only works on EMX (FEZ Cobra) and ChipworkX as it uses the bitmap class but this is a brand new feature so you never know what the future brings.

Sam · May 17, 2011, 5:03pm

Well! to bad for me!
I just lost Cobra, Domino and USBizi board(obsolete!) on the same day last week.
Couldn’t load the firmware and PC did not recognized them (on both MFDeploy or TerraTerm).
Both did not worked anymore!

Now I only have Panda, Panda II and Mini left to work on!

Just hoping that this feature would available for FEZ Panda II, that all!

Skewworks · May 17, 2011, 5:23pm

Nice work guys! Can’t wait to play with this!

bluestream_tech · May 17, 2011, 5:27pm

So Gus, the second “surprise”…I’m guessing that’s the WPF overhaul? Is that being released with the SDK? My development is shut-down right now with the touch controller issue I brought up in the ChipWorkX forum.

si1 · May 17, 2011, 5:27pm

Awesome! How high res will it go? I have a 1080P webcam…

bstag · May 18, 2011, 12:17am

wow

Robert_Jacobs · May 18, 2011, 4:57am

This is AWESOME!
This would be perfect for my robot! :dance:

Would it also be possible to transfer the image to a laptop?
Because that would be really awesome ;D

Brett · May 18, 2011, 6:20am

thats an awesome add. I have been hanging out for this since oh about day 1 of my Fez experience Can’t wait to see it “graduate” to USBizi fezzes though

Architect · May 18, 2011, 8:30am

Sorry to hear that Sam! What happened?

si1 · May 18, 2011, 9:47am

@ foekie, if it produces a Bitmap it should be very easy…

Savvkin · June 4, 2011, 1:53am

Any news about release of this?

Robert_Jacobs · June 4, 2011, 5:01am

Would like to know too.
My cobra is waiting for the new firmware :whistle:

af6767 · July 15, 2011, 10:12am

So i found in a second try a webcam that put me picture on my display.
i used it on a cobra board and the video speed is not good. Is a 160 x 120 videostream to much for a cobra board ?

Second, first i try a creative labs webcam, also driverless and with the same specifications as the camera i use now(it’s a speedlink webcam). but the creative run never. the problem was the imageformat that have to be received from the camera. it was always ‘null’. maybe it is possible to set this from code to make more cameras functional ?

cu
Andreas

Gus_Issa · July 15, 2011, 12:29pm

What do you mean by “not good”? We have tested it with 320x240 images and it worked great.