Overview

The Garcia API supports a subobject type named "camera".  Only one instance of a "camera" object can be created.  It is called "camera-boom".  A camera boom with a pan-tilt head may be mounted on a Garcia as an optional accessory.  The pan-tilt unit will use up two servo outputs on the Garcia robot, #2 for pan and #3 for tilt.

Placing the following line of code in the garcia.config file will make the Garcia API allocate a Camera suboject and make the Servo subobjects for outputs #2 and #3 unavailabe:

camera-boom = yes

Accessing the Camera Boom Subobject

The camera boom suboject has the following name:

camera-boom

If the Garcia API object is named garcia then placing the following line of code in an application will retrieve a pointer to the camera boom subobject:

acpObject* pObj = garcia.getSubObject("camera", "camera-boom");

Property Inheritance

Camera inherits Object properties.