camera for boe-bot

vla7

I recently purchased the boe-bot with the bluetooth adapter.
I bought a usb bluetooth adapter for my pc to comunicate with it (it says it has a range of about 300ft).
I want to be able to connect a camera to the boe-bot, view the video from my pc screen in order to remotely control the boe-bot.
Does anyone know of any bluetooth camera out there that can do this.· If such an item does not exist yet, what is the best way to go about this?
Thanks.

Dgswaner

I did a quick search for blue tooth camera's and didn't find any... I think the problem your going to run into is finding a 300ft range web cam, I think most web cam's are going to be designed to be at the computer and there for won't have the 300ft range... I could be wrong.

you could use a cam that transmits it's video via RF to a receiver and connect it to a TV or computer, or use a wireless IP camera. these IP cams have a web server embedded and connect to your wireless network. they work pretty well, and you can find a New but old stock camera in the neighborhood of $80.00 your mileage may vary.

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DGSwaner

Steve Joblin

You wont find a bluetooth camera because bluetooth is way to slow for video. There are two routes you can take...one is the CMUCam, the other is to use RoboRealm.

Parallax sells the CMUCam... http://parallax.com/Store/Robots/RoboticAccessories/tabid/145/CategoryID/22/List/0/SortField/0/Level/a/ProductID/29/Default.aspx

Here is a great thread on using RoboRealm and a BOEbot...http://forums.parallax.com/showthread.php?p=646454

DiablodeMorte

And another route would be to simply find a wireless camera and just view in on you computer w/ a suitable video card. Roborealm is really there to automate the robot w/ the camera.