Embedded development board with camera

Question

We are planning to purchase an embedded development board with a motion controllable camera.

• Requirement-1: Embedded development with a camera
• Requirement-2: Camera should move both along the X and Z axis (i.e., 2 degrees of freedom)
• Requirement-3: The processor in the board shall be able to run heavy computation (to perform all the Image processing tasks)
• Requirement-4: The board should have a nice array of tool-chains
• Requirement-5: The board should be very cheap

My question:

Do you have any suggestion for such a board

Note

I am going to search the internet for myself. Just in case, if some of you out their, if you have any idea please let me know. It will definitely save me a lot of time with the search and concentrate of programming.

Answer 1

I would buy a Linux board with USB and a USB camera separately.

Answer 2

If it has to be embedded and low power, look at the TI OMAP & Davinci processors. They can run linux or Win CE on the ARM processor and also have DSP for video processing.

There are very cheap evaluation boards that utilize the omap processor, Beagle Board, and gumstix.

Answer 3

check the OK6410 from http://www.arm9board.net, it has an add-on camera and the best video support, a lot of demo programs for the camera is given with the WINCE and Linux BSP, they also give Android but their android is truely "basic" and does not function very well. anyway, this board has already had more than what I expected with such a low price.