Replacement: None. There is no direct replacement for this camera module, however there are several similar CMOS camera modules in the Light and Imaging category. This page is for reference only.
This is a 640x480 pixel resolution CMOS camera used in the Samsung E700 cellular phone. While 0.3 mega pixels may not sound like a lot, this module is one of the smallest, lowest cost CMOS imaging modules currently available to the embedded market. 640 x 480 pixels is more than enough data to test out your basic object recognition, obstacle avoidance algorithm, or simply to snap photos with your 8-bit micro.
This module is brand new, not surplus, we have a large inital stock quantity, and we will stock this module for many years to come.
The interface is hinted at with many other CMOS cameras, and since this is a cellular tech spin-off, there should be plenty of similar interfaces to mimic.
Therefore - we will be offering a $200 in-store gift certificate to the first customer who can adequately document and report their successful single-image capture using this module. We would be thrilled to post your mug and forever immortalize you on the SFE site (well, for a day or two anyway). We will be working to reverse engineer the unit and encourage all customers to work together through the SFE support forum.
Winner! On July 25, 2006 David Carne published the first photograph taken by the CMOS camera making him the winner of the reverse engineering the camera contest. Congrats David for pulling off what normally requires a team of engineers and a plethora of technical equipment! Thank you for opening the door to this geat camera. It took only 5 months and 5 days to take a completely ambiguous sensor to kick out some very complex image data. Nice job David!
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I was looking for input clock frequency for this camera? Any1 have idea??
Any chance of getting a connector, even though that's retired?
Not sure but I think this is the data sheet for this camera.
http://www.globaltec.com.hk/databook/hynix/Hyca3_V20.pdf
You need the connector to use this right? But that one is retired..
can sparkfun at the very least provide a datasheet for this part and host a copy of the winning how to use doccumentation on the sparkfun website. If not what did you get from giving out $200.
Hello,
I am very interested in camera like this. But I can not find any informacion about how to talk with this camera. Or maby i should only plug it and i will get image data without any configuration. But i think configuration must be possible but i can not find it. can You help me?
Bye
Kuba
Google docs cache is your friend!
Luckily it had a copy, so I've reuploaded it here for now on filevo.com:
http://filevo.com/ypn2eavjr93w.html
Hi Danukeru can you send me a copy please?
Thanks
http://david.carne.ca/ comes up with:
I AM THE ALPHA AND THE OMEGA
> shutdown -h now
/sbin/shutdown: access denied
> _
http://www.dynamoelectronics.com/sensores/03-09-01 comes up 404.
http://o-d-v.nm.ru/tel_cam/cameras/samsung_E700_CameraManual.pdf redirects to http://qip.ru/error/404
I'm guessing you guys haven't flushed your browser caches in a while.
None of these links seems to work for me. Sparkfun really needs to be hosting a copy of the manual. Does anyone have a copy? I'd rather not buy this without knowing there's a manual available.
All the links above work. Try those.
Actually, none of them work for me either.
Really? I've tried them on separate computers and they seem to work. Contact techsupport@sparkfun.com and they can help you out.
David's Manual:
http://o-d-v.nm.ru/tel_cam/cameras/samsung_E700_CameraManual.pdf
Anyone know where that forum thread is? The link is dead.
After a >lot< of searching I found Davids manual for this camera here:
http://www.dynamoelectronics.com/sensores/03-09-01
This should really be hosted on sparkfun!
David's site (http://david.carne.ca/) seems to be down for quite a while now, do you guys have the documentation he produced backed up?
Thanks