Camera

This section discusses how to use cameras, whether it be adding USB cameras to SmartDashboard in teleop, or using machine vision to navigate the robot in autonomous mode.

Contents

• Teleop Camera
  • Code implementation
  • Opening the camera stream in SmartDashboard
• Vision
  • Choosing a platform
    • Installing OpenCV on the Raspberry Pi
      • Installing Raspbian
      • Installing OpenCV
        • 1. Update the RPi
        • 2. Install necessary software
        • 3. Install numpy, which is necessary to use OpenCV
        • 4. Format and mount the USB drive to store OpenCV
        • 5. Download and extract the OpenCV source code
        • 6. Prepare to build OpenCV
        • 7. Build OpenCV
        • 8. Install the build
        • 9. Configure OpenCV
        • 10. Check to make sure it worked
      • Installing the Picamera