I have been working on a machine vision system for our CNC machines, a pick-n-place robot that's been churning in my head, and an underwater robot based upon the OpenROV project that is coming to life in my basement. All of these projects are built around the BeagleBone Black. I am testing the Logitech C920 which features beautiful Carl Zeiss optics with auto focus, 1920x1080 resolution, and on-camera H.264 compression at 30fps. The on-camera compression should ease the load on the BeagleBoard significantly over the Genius F100 camera currently being used on the OpenROV robot.
Who needs fancy plastics hiding the beauty of the inner circuitry? So of course I dissected the C920. Here are the pics for your enjoyment.
This camera works flawlessly (so far) with V4L2 and OpenCV on the BeagleBone Black running Debian Wheezy.
