Camera for Jetson TX2 developers kit

Robotics & Edge Computing Jetson Systems Jetson TX2
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Hello

I am looking for recommendations. I’ll buy a Jetson TX2 developers kit for a school project and I am looking for a camera that works “good” for this kit.

Does not need to be anything “fancy”. Just for a simple image recognition project.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

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Hi osegura13,

A 5 MP Fixed Focus MIPI CSI Camera - OV5693 was included in the devkit, that should be enough, or you could use USB camera.

Thanks

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The included camera is rigidly mounted to the module that plugs into the motherboard. As long as you can move/orient the motherboard to point the camera at your point of interest, this will work.

A USB camera can work, although you may have to re-compile the kernel with a configuration that enables the UVC USB camera support and the specific sensor modules depending on whether your USB camera needs that additional support. This is not that hard, but requires a working Ubuntu 16.04 computer with 40 GB of free hard disk or more. (Not virtual machine, but booting from USB will work.)

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Thanks very much Kayccc and snarky!

I didn’t know a camera was included. That is great! And I don’t think I have any problem with it being mounted on the module… however, just for learning purposes, is there any guide/tutorial for that configuration?

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Hello, I am also looking for a guide to using the 5 MP camera included with the dev kit. If anyone has a guide on reading data from the camera it would be much appreciated!