Wow, thanks for the replies!



Unfortunately my tutor isn't an engineer per se; we're all very much on our own for this. I'm in my third year of a four year electronics course. They've done loads of theory and I can tell you everything about how a ucontroller works, but we've done alarming little hands-on work so component choosing is all pretty alien to me..

The project is a vision system for a robot football team. The video part of the circuit is complete as well as much of the program (in C). I just need to find a suitable host for it and a means to program it cheaply (I've got perhaps £50 to spend on the controller snd support circuitry).

I'll take a look at all the devices you've recommended and get back to you asap.