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Electronics => Electronics => Topic started by: BuddingContraptionist on October 21, 2008, 08:39:27 PM

Title: how do i solder this camera?
Post by: BuddingContraptionist on October 21, 2008, 08:39:27 PM

I found this camera for $10 (http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=8668), and I notice that it isn't mounted on anything.  How would I wire that up?  They have other ones that are mounted on small breakout boards which look to contain a fair amount of circuitry.  Is this camera something i could connect power and i/o to and use out of the box?  Or is there more to it than that...

I'm really just amazed at the price

Title: Re: how do i solder this camera?
Post by: izaktj on October 22, 2008, 01:15:02 AM

Me too.

Title: Re: how do i solder this camera?
Post by: pomprocker on October 22, 2008, 10:04:54 AM

You'd have to put together some sort of image processing board i believe.

Title: Re: how do i solder this camera?
Post by: hgordon on October 22, 2008, 11:02:36 AM

That is an interesting camera because of the built-in JPEG, but to use it, you need a processor with an 8-bit parallel interface that runs at 20MHz, in addition to I2C for camera configuration.