Using a PS3 eye toy with OpenCV

I was looking for a USB webcam that I could use for doing some openCV/digital control systems projects. The PS3 Eye seems like a great product for this!

• $7 on Amazon!!
• Standard USB interface
• 640 x 480 resolution. Not great but...
• 60 fps framerate, up to 120 fps with lower resolution (320x240)
• Did I mention...$7?!

So I tried this out with a simple program I wrote in OpenCV, and after actually writing a frame-rate counter I realized that I actually wasn't running it at 60fps! Hmmm. Turns out you need to do a little bit of work to get the settings just right.