Xhx, a week?
Thats a great diagram you drew. Things are more organized now!
I'll take the camera. I've already done some research on it for my CANSAT project. We have two options.. either we hack an existing webcam, or we fabricate our own camera using CCD imagers. At the moment, a webcam hack is doable because you'll connect it directly to the laptop through USB. No need to worry about decoding the USB signals
I propose this webcam:
Philips SPC900NC
CCD sensor: Sony ICX098BQ
Resolution: 640X 480
Pixels: 300K
Pixel size: 5.6 micron
We can mount a better lens on the existing one for better image quality, as well as put it on servos so it can rotate in the x-y axi. If possible, we can also make a mechanism to automatically change the image filters, so we could switch from normal to infrared views
I'll upload other webcams and the datasheets of their CCD sensors on CE Lab tomorrow or the day after.
I might as well take the light sensors as well, unless someone else wants its.
@ Kinetic
Keep up the good work! By the way, the word "censor" is almost an antonym of "sensor" if you think about it
Don't confuse the two!