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In article <MaekwsG00WB40B=F11@andrew.cmu.edu>, cb1p+@andrew.cmu.edu (Chris Beasley) writes:
> 
> Well, here's my feeble attempt to steer the ship back towards more
> interesting robotics project discussion:
> 
> I had an idea the other night about a possible stereo vision system
> for a robotics project I am designing.  It would utilize the guts of
> a pair of Fisher-Price camcorders and a simple digitizer, perhaps alternating
> frames from the cameras.  There cameras are slow scan video so the
> data rates wouldn't be overwhelming and they're cheap!

> I'm hoping that someone out there in netland has had some experience
> working with these devices and can offer some insights as to the
> availability of technical documentation and the feasability of
> working with them: interfacing etc.

Someone just posted a description of how he interfaced one of these
Camcorders to his MS-DOS machine in sci.electronics.  This was a
few days ago, though.  I can mail it to anyone who is interested.

Jim Yegerlehner yegerleh@vivaldi.composer.ecn.purdue.edu