Hi Bryan, I have used the Nogatech Conference Card (PCMCIA sound/video capture) with the TechWearable, but would not recommend it. Nogatech has stopped producing and supporting these despite the fact that they are still on the shelf in some stores. If you are looking for high-quality/framerate video capture on your wearable, and robot, take a look at what is available for the bt848/849-based capture cards. I have used several varients of these cards (IMS Inc. Turbo TV, Hauppauge WinTV) on one of my robots and have nothing but good things to say about them. ActivMedia Robotics sells a PC-104+ framegrabber for use with their Pioneer-2 robots that is based on this chip. RH Linux drivers can be found at http://robots.activmedia.com/bt8xx/ If power consumption is more important than speed/quality I would recommend you go with a USB camera... Bryan Andersen wrote: > Hi, > > For years I've had my eye on eventually making a wearable > computer. The time has come. I'm looking at piecing together > a wearable computer in a few months. One of the things I'm > looking at is possibly making one that has quality video > capture built into it. Currently I do alot of digital > photography and am looking at possibly getting into digital > video. I'm wondering what explorations others have done along > those lines, and thoughts on possible setups. I realize that > doing the high quality video will likely mean I have to have a > video compressor along with the video capture as well as large > amounts of storage space. Neither frightens me. Nor does the > fact that it will likely chew battery power. I want to see > how feasable it is now. If it is I will likely try to build a > unit otherwise I'll likely build a wearable without video > input. > > The piecing together of a wearable dosen't bother me. I'm > typing this in on a Linux PC built into a robot I'm in the > process of building. > > -- > | Bryan Andersen || http://softail.visi.com | > | Buzzwords are like annoying little flies that deserve to be swatted. | > | -Bryan Andersen | > > -- > Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of > "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" to
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