CAN i connect it to slip ring

Is is possible to take videos with this module?

Hi, I have been trying for days now to run a code on Arduino Mega 2560 that will take a picture from this camera and save it in an SDHC card. I have found the correct pins (19, 50, 51, 52 and 53 output) so the card initializes, but I cannot write anything. Could someone please post a working code ? The one in the Arduino page never reaches the EndFlag... Thank you

Can you post a sample image at full rez so we can see if this thing is worth $55 bucks?

Just thought I'd provide a quick write-up of this module based on several weeks now of trying to get it to work well. Most of that time was spent fussing with code to handle the serial transmissions (between an Arduino and the camera, and between my Macbook and the Arduino) to transmit JPEGs to my Mac.

Getting the camera to take pictures is relatively easy, although the sample code provided in the wiki is a bit of a mess. I'll work on a blog post with my sample code.

I was very disappointed in the image quality. I was hoping for quality that would rival a low-end 2MP (1600x1200) consumer camera. However, the color quality is so bad you'd almost mistake it for a black-and-white camera, and there is significant spatial distortion at the edges of the frame. For example, here's a high-res photo taken with the Linksprite and here is essentially the same photo taken with my iPhone. You can see they're not even close.

If you do get this, be sure to use the User Manual linked on this page, which is different than the one in the product wiki. The latter is out of date and wrong. The correct manual gives instructions for changing the exposure and IR mode on the camera. I was hoping that changing the IR mode would improve the color quality, but I couldn't get it to work at all.

I also couldn't fetch images from the camera (via the Arduino) at anything above 38400 baud, which made for pretty slow image transfer, but that might not have been the camera's fault.

1600x1200 at 15fps through a serial link with a max 115200 baud rate?...no way

I just bought one of these cameras (LinkSprite JPEG Color Camera TTL Interface - 2MP) But I have no idea how to take a picture! The User Manual and product wiki is almost useless. Can someone let me know how to take a picture?

I do not know the meaning of [exposure control] settings Someone you know person do you?

"0x80" no change where I tried, the other (for example, 0x01, etc.) has changed to extremely dark image

8.Serial port to manually adjust the exposure control 56 00 46 00 xx XX　00-0xff

Do the Rx and Tx Pins work at 5V or 3.3V? I was planning to interface it with a Tiva Launchpad.

I've been working on getting this working with an Arduino and Openlog. I believe I've taken a picture and I now have a massive string saved to the Openlog starting with the characters FF D8 and ending with FF D9. But I can't seem to convert this text to an actual image. I suppose the image has been encoded into JFIF. How could I now convert this to an actual jpeg that I can view?

This is a 2MP CMOS camera.

I'm running an mbed board with a serial connection on pins PTC3 (rx) and PTC4 (tx). I'm sending the commands out as I see in the manual on the tx pin (connected to rx pin of camera), however, I never get the "ACK command" back on the rx line (connected to tx pin of camera)? Are the commands in Hex or Decimal or something else? Any suggestions on how to get the camera to acknowledge?

For about $20 more, this basic digital camera does 20.1 megapixel stills, 720p video at 30fps, etc, etc, etc... Included in that price is a >~1000mAh battery, 2.7" LCD, the plastic enclosure, etc, etc, etc... http://www.bestbuy.com/site/sony-dsc-w800-20-1-megapixel-digital-camera-black/4349004.p

How then, does this slower and lower-fidelity camera with no storage, lights, usb, etc, etc, maintain this price? Not intended as a dig at sparkfun, because I find no significantly better and/or cheaper cameras available.

Where does one purchase the comparatively well-featured cameras they put in every ~$20 cell phone nowadays? I realize the phone manufacturers buy 1000000000000 cameras at a time but even with adding the onboard encoder to make the camera 'standalone', the price-feature ratio seems way off.

Could you not (summarizing) add a <$20 SD sniffer to the above BestBuy camera and outperform this in every way? Besides being tiny and low-power, please spell out for me where the value in this is?

Thanks

The section of code that seems to be some of the most important is relatively unexplained:

void SendReadDataCmd(){
MH=i/0x100;
ML=i%0x100;
mySerial.write(0x56);
mySerial.write(ZERO);
mySerial.write(0x32);
mySerial.write(0x0c);
mySerial.write(ZERO);
mySerial.write(0x0a);
mySerial.write(ZERO);
mySerial.write(ZERO);
mySerial.write(MH);
mySerial.write(ML);
mySerial.write(ZERO);
mySerial.write(high);
mySerial.write(med);
mySerial.write(low);
mySerial.write(ZERO);
mySerial.write(0x0a);
i+=low;}

This code works as long as low is less then 255 of course because of byte size. However I have been unable to make the chunk size something larger like 512 without it breaking mainly because I don't understand what is functionally happening and what real maths need to happen for mh and ml. When I change the i+= section to the full chunk size (512 for example) this also doesn't work.

How can I get information on this statement for communicating with the camera. The section in the documentation says:

Returning Bytes: 56 00 32 0c 00 0a 00 Addr2 Addr1 Addr0 00 Data2 Data1 Data0 00 0a
Addr2 Addr1 Addr0 is start Addr of the package
Data2 Data1 Data0 is package Size package Size is a multiple of 8

Alright so... if package size is 512 how do I express that in two bits and how do I calculate Addr2 Addr1 Addr0

Can someone please tell me what MH and ML represent in the code and subsequently what purpose they serve in the SendReadData command? I've pretty much mastered this camera but this is stumping my final hurdle!

Can any one help me to build a camera like this?

• 1080P

• can use the WiFi module as the following. Or other way to use WiFi to link to the camera. I just want the camera to link outside with WiFi connection, but I don't want the serial cable connection between the camera and WiFi module, other connection is fine.

https://www.sparkfun.com/products/10004

Please let me know if you know how to make it. Thank you very much. My email is sli1828@hotmail.com

FWIW I thought I would pass along that I have been able to get this camera to work with a Due, saving the image to SD and/or processing it in memory as needed.

Note that the documentation suuuuuuuuucks and some settings such as cranking up the image size or dialing down the compression seem to blow the poor things tiny mind, requiring a reset.

As no response from SF contradicting the statements done I fear they may be true......

I have one of the earlier models and it does work, just not to any of the clained perforamce levels. Perhaps Sparkfun Live could incorporate this device into a project where the real device get demonstarated.

When they say "..can capture high resolution pictures and transport them over TTL serial, making it perfect for embedded applications." do they mean serial out to a PC for display or how else can JPEG format be used in an embedded application?

Is there any way to get raw pixel data from the camera? The manual and wiki do not mention raw, only JPEG, I believe.

Anyone know what chip is behind that "QC PASSED" sticker?

" maximum frame rate of 1600?0x1200 at 15fps" ?? Does that mean like MJPG at 1600x1200 @ 15FPS? I dont understand that. THe user manual says "160x120 preview @8bpp with 0.75~6 fps" - Come on guys, you just shoving some cheap chinese crap on here now.oh wait £32 - Thats seems a bit to expensive for my liking! You can get better modules (not UART) but still.

This line of text may be incorrect:

16000x1200 at 15fps

Though this is what is on the wiki.