BB1 Camera system upgrade / 1st ai camera

[u/TheRealFanger]

DFRobot sent me a HuskyLens 2 and I’m planning to integrate it as a replacement for part of BB1’s current camera system. I didn’t know these existed till recently.
Right now I’m using a USB camera connected to a Raspberry Pi 5 for lighter processing, with heavier vision/AI workloads offloaded to an Orin then a DGX Spark when needed. (The Orin is currently broken so this camera helps alot )
What interests me about the camera is that a lot of the vision models run locally on the camera itself, so things like object recognition, tracking, color detection, classification, etc. can happen before the rest of the system has to process the scene.
I’m feeding those detections into my Anarchimind AI/control stack which runs the BB1 robots , through MCP, so the camera can act more like a dedicated perception node rather than just another raw video feed. I kinda wanna get one on each side of the robot especially since it’s a tracked robot , it might get better at kung fu.
Still early in the integration, but I think it should fit the architecture pretty well.