On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 6:07 PM, Arun Venkataswamy <arun289 at gmail.com>wrote:
Hi,
I have an ARM based Linux SBC (Chumby hacker board,
http://www.sparkfun.com/products/10106).
For a personal project related to astronomy-imaging, I need to connect a
specific webcam (Philips SPC900) to it. The webcam will be placed inside a
telescope. The reason for choosing this out of production webcam (paying a
premium for it in ebay) is because it is one of the very few cameras that
support manual exposure time setting. We need long exposure for imaging
stars. The camera has a good linux driver (pwc.ko) for this. The problem is
that the SBC does not have a pre compiled binary for this. It would be
practically impossible for me to compile this driver from source because of
the dependencies and requirement of the kernel source code and all.
Any suggestion and help would be great!
It is difficult to use a regular x86 based PC for this because the entire
contraption is going to be placed on a remote location 80 kms from Chennai
in a farm with only a watchman. This is because I require dark skies. Power
consumption and reliability is of high priority. An Atom based PC booting
out of a pen drive will be my last option, though the simplest.
Regards,
Arun
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