Recommendation for a small "Body Camera" to mount on the robot

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I’m looking for some advice from those of you that have actually put a camera on your robot for a device. These are smaller VIQ robots. I could use my GoPro13, but it’s a little chunky. I found this

it’s super small, very light weight and is 8% of the cost of the GoPro, so ideal. Do these things make good videos, or just potato shots?

Post what you use and how it’s been working for you.

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Why would you need this though?

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  1. I’m getting ready to start a programming series called “The 3rd driver” There are two drivers, the third driver is the robot. I want videos to go “See what the robot sees? How can we utilize that?”
  2. I need a new set of promo-videos, and think a robot eye view cut into the driver view will be be interesting.
  3. Debug mechanical issues on the robot. By pointing the camera to internal mechanism, can they see what is happening as the robot is moving.

Does that help?

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Not quite the same form factor, and definitely way more expensive, but have you heard of the GoPro Hero Session series? The form factor is a lot better than a full size gopro:

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Interesting approach! You want it to live stream I assume? You could try the vision sensor perhaps as a start? It used to be IQ compatible and since you only need to wifi stream it may still work? Maybe a bit clunky however. Just a wild idea but I like your thinking of getting students to take on more of the “robot perspective”

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No, I don’t need to live stream, cards are fine. Taking a full sized SD card would be a bonus, I have a card that is Wi-Fo capable and you can upload files from the device.

Yep, I have the Hero 13 and may end up just using that. I was intrigued buy the small form factor that would pretty much tuck anywhere.

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Last time we put a camera on our robot, we used an off brand GoPro (I forget the model) with a 3d printed mount one of our team members made in inventor, with the proper hole spacing built into the bottom of it. This seemed to work well!

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