What do I need to build a shield capable of receiving 1080p video from USB camera, timestamp each frame and send the frame to memory card?
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4It would require so much hardware in terms of memory, speed and specialized peripherals, that it renders adding an Arduino to the mix pointless.– jippieMar 9, 2014 at 16:07
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4You would be better off with a Raspberry Pi connected to the USB port via serial and to send when to start/stop. The YUN might be able to handle it, but you'll have to write your own device drivers. Also, the TRE (not available yet) might work.– Anonymous PenguinMar 9, 2014 at 16:45
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None of the ATmega based boards have the hardware (in terms of acting as a USB host) or power (in terms of handling probably compressed 1080p video).
Potentially one of the ARM boards could do this. The Arduino Due can act as a host, but it sounds fairly experimental, and none of them will have drivers to connect to the camera.
If a shield was developed to do this, it would have so much more power than the Arduino that the Arduino would probably better be viewed as a slave to the other device.
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1The Arduino Due has a port that can act as a USB host. You'd still have driver issues, though. Mar 10, 2014 at 22:04
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