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JetCam

The JetCam is a repurposed JetBot with a webcam that publishes the camera feed to ROS. This turns out to be a simple package that can all be bought on amazon and set up quickly. It can be plugged in to the wall or operated on battery power.

Hardware

These parts can all be ordered from Amazon for about $320.

If you bought a JetBot already

Item Price
Jetson Nano Expansion Board (LTE & GPS) $88.55
Logitech C920e Webcam $41.99
18650 Batteries (with free crappy flashlight) $18.99

From scratch

Item Price
Jetson Nano Developer Kit $99.00
Jetson Nano Expansion Board (LTE & GPS) $88.55
Geekworm T200 Power Management Shield $48.69
Waveshare Wifi Module $23.57
Logitech C920e Webcam $41.99
18650 Batteries (with free crappy flashlight) $18.99

Assembly is essentially obvious - just note that you have to add the jumper to the J48 pins for the barrel jack to power the Nano.

Setup

Set up the JetBot image

This package uses the JetBot base image in order to get some nice default packages and configuration.

Follow steps 1, 2, and 3 here: https://github.com/NVIDIA-AI-IOT/jetbot/wiki/software-setup

Install the jetcam package

Once the JetBot image is installed, on wifi, and updated, clone this repository to your home directory:

cd && git clone git@github.com:FormantIO/jetcam.git

Run the setup script:

sudo jetcam/setup.sh

Set reboot permissions (optional)

To use the reboot.sh script externally, the following directive must be added to the sudoers file:

[YOUR USER]  ALL=NOPASSWD:/sbin/reboot

In this case, [YOUR USER] will be the user running the script such as formant in the case of the Formant agent calling it.

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