On Fri, 5 Jun 1998 09:41:35 -0700, Bob Blick wrote:

>On Thu, 4 Jun 1998, ashley barnett wrote:
>
>> Has any body captured video or digital picture with a pic and then sent data
>> via a modem ?
>
>Yes, inasmuch as the Quickcams have a PIC in them, and I've used a PC
>running ISPY or Webcam32 and a modem.
>
>Unless you add a bit of hardware to the PIC, it would be a clunky setup to
>do it with a camera, PIC, and modem.(without a PC). You'd have to do the
>dialup, then using the limited amount of ram in the PIC capture a line of
>video or a portion of a line, send it out the modem, count lines until you
>came around to the next line, grab that one, etc. Your picture would be
>made of video lines taken over the course of a minute or so, or however
>long it took to modem out the data.
>
>-bob
>

How about hacking one of those "Snappy" devices?  They must already have a nice
frame buffer.  Add a cheap CCD camera and an *external* modem and you are in
business!  A larger MCU such as an 80C51 or 68HC11 might be more appropriate tho
ugh,
but I bet you could still get by with a PIC as long as the frame buffer was exte
rnal.

Dan