Mar 7 2011
Gumstix, developer, manufacturer and marketer of tiny Linux computers, has released two camera expansion boards for Overo Computer-on-Module (COM) series.
The tiny Caspa FS and the Caspa VL expansion boards have been designed for computer surveillance, machine vision and autonomous robotic solutions.
Caspa FS
The Caspa expansion boards have a 1/3” Aptina VGA CMOS color image sensor with a 752x480 pixel resolution and 60 fps frame rate. Infrared as well as visual light get registered on the Caspa FS expansion board. The Caspa VL monitors the visual light for colorful and accurate images.
The boards have a 10-bit parallel interface with the Overo COM's image signal processing hardware reduces CPU loads are reduced and provides high data throughput. The Overo COMs are powered by Texas Instruments’ OMAP35x applications processor with up to 512 MB of RAM and an ARM Cortex-A8 CPU. Gumstix has used the same schematic for each boar that is openly published for easy integration of boards in custom solutions.
Gumstix has collaborated with ETH Zurich for the Pixhawk project that aims to implement computer vision on micro air vehicles (MAVs).