This MAY yet involve a PIC (but, probably not).

I want to see what's involved in talking to a USB video camera using a
standalone processor. I'd like to avoid using a PC motherboard although this
would very possibly provide the easiest get-you-going path.

Assume lots of memory available - could be serial flash or whatever.
PIC may be suitable but sheer data rate is daunting.

Has anyone got any thoughts on how they would go about this.
Ideas need not be well founded (although complete code and schematics will
be gratefully :-))
What I'm looking for is ideas to seed possible development paths.

The Cornell Autonomous Helicopter Project has some good links to various USB
cameras (thanks).
Matrox do a PC104 frame grabber which is one possible approach but USB is
liable to be increasingly available and gives a nice "standard" and fairly
fast interface which allows ease  of swapping camera hardware.

USB cameras are a wee bit slow far (will no doubt improve) so may not
ultimately be the way to go.




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