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camera and sensors and WiFi without a SBC

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Hello, We have a need for a small form factor solution with the following capabilities and are looking for advice on approaches:
USB web camera
WiFi capable
several digital input sensors

In the past we have used a Single Board Computer (SBC) solution - but we need to get smaller. So I'm trying to figure out the least amount of "stuff" that could be used to accomplish the same goal. That goal being something to supply sensor readings and a decent video feed from our remote tool.

After reviewing some posts in this forum - it appears that trying to use a USB-webcam is probably impossible for a microcontroller.
Or at least not sensible.
But the Pixy CMUcam5 might be small enough for us to work with.

I see Adafruit's CC3000 WiFi Breakout and am wondering if I could combine that with something like the Uno R3 and the Pixy camera.
And would the microcontroller be able to "push" the camera data to the CC3000, where it would then be received by a PC?
Along with some digital sensor data attached to the R3 (or similar device)?

Or is that level of processing out of reach for a microcontroller?

Thanks for any advice,

Aaron

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Re: camera and sensors and WiFi without a SBC

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Why not look at the Raspberry Pi? the UNO is about 2 1/8 x 2 3/4 and the pi is 2 5/8 x 3 3/4. For the additional power available that is not a big difference.

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Re: camera and sensors and WiFi without a SBC

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Thank you for responding to my post. There were several items wrong with it.
First - I should have done more research before asking these questions. Period.

This Pixy camera isn't designed for streaming video per say. But for processing images and streaming data about what it finds.
We need high resolution video.

As for streaming "video" using an Arduino microcontroller and the CC3000 - this project did something similar:
http://www.openhomeautomation.net/wireless-camera/
And they pointed out the limitations of transferring data with the Arduino.

So we may dissect a SBC touted as the smallest (2x2x2 in) and use it for video transmission.
And alongside it use an Uno with a CC3000 for sensor data transmission.

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