Is there a way to get parallel video from the picamera, though? Parallel 
video data pins d4 through d9 are muxed with the CSI-2 ones. I don't know 
where to find d0-d3.

On Saturday, July 20, 2013 4:18:25 AM UTC+2, Teknoman117 wrote:
>
> The GPIO subsystem of the AM33xx CPUs does not run fast enough to do what 
> you want here, I honestly think the best route for this would to design a 
> board that converted a CSI device into a USB device.  Problem is that the 
> CSI (and DSI) standards are proprietary, and one must be a member of 
> MIPI.org to access those standards.  And one who is a member is not 
> allowed to discuss those documents, because they have all signed NDAs.  Its 
> a bummer really.
>
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> On Jul 19, 2013, at 6:55 PM, AGSCalabrese <[email protected] <javascript:>> 
> wrote:
>
> I am interested in installing the picamera on the BBB.
> Would you be interested in working with me on this ?
> The Raspberry Pi Camera Module is a custom designed add-on for Raspberry 
> Pi. It attaches to Raspberry Pi by way of one of the two small sockets on 
> the board upper surface. This interface uses the dedicated CSI interface, 
> which was designed especially for interfacing to cameras. The CSI bus is 
> capable of extremely high data rates, and it exclusively carries pixel 
> data.  see http://www.mipi.org/specifications/camera-interface   
> Apparently the RBPi uses the CSI-2 bus standard.   Quote: On the production 
> board[23] <http://elinux.org/RPi_Low-level_peripherals#cite_note-23>, the 
> Raspberry Pi Foundation design brings out the MIPI CSI-2 (Camera Serial 
> Interface[24] <http://elinux.org/RPi_Low-level_peripherals#cite_note-24>) 
> to a 15-way flat flex connector S5, between the Ethernet and HDMI 
> connectors. A compatible camera[25] 
> <http://elinux.org/RPi_Low-level_peripherals#cite_note-25> with 5 
> Megapixels and 1080p video resolution was released in May 2013.   The 
> connector implements the control link ( 2 pins ) , the differential clock ( 
> 2 pins ) , ground ( 4 pins ) , 3.3V power ( 1 pin ) , 2 channels of 
> differential pixel data ( 4 pins ) , CAMCLK ( 1 pin ) and CAMGPIO ( 1 pin ) 
> .       Schematics can be found here ==> 
> http://www.raspberrypi.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Raspberry-Pi-R2.0-Schematics-Issue2.2_027.pdf
>
> The BBB does not appear to have any *obvious*  high speed I/O for 
> supporting the CSI-2 data channels , so some research will have to be done.
>
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> On Jul 17, 2013, at 10:01 AM, [email protected] <javascript:> 
> wrote:
>
> Thanks. 
> On Sunday, July 14, 2013 8:06:05 PM UTC+1, Gerald wrote:
>>
>> I don't know of any. It might be possible, but it would require some real 
>> documentation to make that determination.
>>
>> Gerald
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 6:08 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:
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>>> Is it possible for there to be an interface board for the picamera. It 
>>> is significantly cheaper than the current camera cape and has a higher 
>>> megapixel resolution.
>>>
>>> I don't know what kind of speeds you get compared to a USB camera.
>>>
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