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Electronics => Electronics => Topic started by: lkik on May 29, 2008, 05:18:40 AM

Title: mobile phone camera
Post by: lkik on May 29, 2008, 05:18:40 AM
would it be possible to take the camera from a phone and use it as a sensor in a robot
Title: Re: mobile phone camera
Post by: ed1380 on May 29, 2008, 06:30:30 AM
they sell them for cheap
http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=8668
Title: Re: mobile phone camera
Post by: Steve Joblin on May 29, 2008, 07:45:21 AM
that's just the camera... you will need all the circuitry that can create the signals (like a CMUcam, for example), then you need to be able to process the video image using software (like roborealm, for example).
Title: Re: mobile phone camera
Post by: Nyx on May 29, 2008, 08:12:38 AM
that's just the camera... you will need all the circuitry that can create the signals (like a CMUcam, for example), then you need to be able to process the video image using software (like roborealm, for example).

Actually, that camera module seems to integrate a controller... It can even do jpeg compression on its own.
Title: Re: mobile phone camera
Post by: benji on May 29, 2008, 11:01:45 AM
the gameboy camera has been used a lot in robots , there are tutorials on the net on how to hack it
its black and white camera with low resolution , sutable for micros with small memorys ,,