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Looking for a Camera
« on: December 17, 2007, 05:26:09 PM »
Hey guys. I'm looking for a small camera that would be easy to interface with a micro. I've found a few on this site that have a lot of processing hardware on them but I just want a basic camera with a serial or maybe an 8-bit interface without any extra tracking ware.

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Re: Looking for a Camera
« Reply #1 on: December 17, 2007, 05:33:40 PM »
How do you plan to interface with the camera?

Both the AVRcam and the CMUcam use the same Omnivision OV6620 CMOS camera (~$60). You can just buy that separately from the extra hardware.

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Re: Looking for a Camera
« Reply #2 on: December 17, 2007, 09:11:55 PM »
Ideally I'd just wire it to a port on my micro. What I'm really looking for is a camera chip like the OV6620 mounted on a board with a lens and pins or a connector that I can solder to.

If you can help me find something like this I'd be grateful : )

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Re: Looking for a Camera
« Reply #3 on: December 17, 2007, 09:19:09 PM »
You just need make a wire connector and attach headers.

notice the row of holes at the top:


stick this male header into those holes and solder it on:


and finally, make your wire connector:
http://www.societyofrobots.com/electronics_wire_connector.shtml

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Re: Looking for a Camera
« Reply #4 on: December 17, 2007, 09:29:54 PM »


Ah ha! ^That's what I've been looking for. Would you recommend getting one from Electronics 123 as you got the picture?

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Re: Looking for a Camera
« Reply #5 on: December 17, 2007, 10:23:45 PM »
I have never bought the camera alone. Make sure the one you buy was made after 2005, as they had a large batch of cameras with badly angled lenses.

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Re: Looking for a Camera
« Reply #6 on: December 18, 2007, 07:59:48 AM »
Ive got one of the cheapish camera modules coming from spark fun, it seems quite easy to interface its got a pulse line, 8 bit data bus, hsynch and vsynch (and an i2c control interface).
basically when the vsych pulses high, it signal a new frame. When the hsynch pulses high, it signal a new line. when the pulse line pulses, it signal a new byte available on the 8 bit data bus.

I'll probably slow its clock down and use a dedicated pic at 20mhz to interface to it and send the data to ram. Maybe another pic to reduce image size/ convert it to a smaller image for ease of use, and act as a go between.

 


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