I've used an E-Flite EFC-721 camera to record footage from robot battles before (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFmfHjnstgM) and I think you should be able to reduce the thickness of that down to 15mm by removing some of the plastic should you need to. I don't know if you can do live video with it, though, and you'd need to bring your own LEDs, but it might end up being suitable in a pinch (and it's fairly reasonably priced compared to FPV setups). Apologies I can't help more - I'm interested to know what you come up with though!
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joey_picus wrote:I've used an E-Flite EFC-721 camera to record footage from robot battles before (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFmfHjnstgM) and I think you should be able to reduce the thickness of that down to 15mm by removing some of the plastic should you need to. I don't know if you can do live video with it, though, and you'd need to bring your own LEDs, but it might end up being suitable in a pinch (and it's fairly reasonably priced compared to FPV setups). Apologies I can't help more - I'm interested to know what you come up with though!
I'm looking for something ready to use and with all the described "accessories".
You mentioned walls, so are we talking about moving vertically within a 20mm gap between inner and outer walls?
(Interesting project, btw. and definately within the realms of possibility with the information you have given so far.
I have an FPV setup that uses a camera that is 9 x 9 x 11mm.)
15mm is doable, but with regular gear motors it will only give you a mm or two of ground clearance.
Being an FPV platform it'd likely want to be 4WD to give a steady base with good control.
Needs to be reliable as you don't want constant maintanance. Should be easy enough with 100rpm motors and Neoprene wheels.
Will also want a good run time and weights not really an issue, so something like a 470mAh 2s would last you plenty of time.
Alex routinely designs and builds chassis for people, and I provide the electronics, so between us we could probably build something that fits the bill if someone knows of a suitable camera.