Although I still highly recommend that you use a USB webcam. The majority of the high end webcams (logitech at least) are compatible with the UVC driver, thus working out of the box with the Beaglebone. I have a v4l2 frame grabber in C++ I use with my robotics project.
https://github.com/Teknoman117/kybernetes/blob/master/kybernetes/src/kybernetes/sensor/uvccamera.cpp https://github.com/Teknoman117/kybernetes/blob/master/kybernetes/include/kybernetes/sensor/uvccamera.hpp Basically, it works fairly simply // Open camera and grab an image UVCCamera c("/dev/video0", 640, 480, V4L2_PIX_FMT_YUYV); // Blocks until a frame is received, frame will be resized to store the image std::vector<unsigned char> frame; c.grab(frame); Nathaniel Lewis CTO at E1FTW Games 3rd year Undergraduate, Computer Science and Engineering Project Manager for the Robotics Society at UC Merced Undergraduate Lab Technician Intern at MESA Labs (925) 309 9730 [email protected] On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 11:54 AM, Nathaniel Lewis <[email protected]> wrote: > Sadly, it won't work with the Pi camera board. Not enough of the pins are > broken out. You'd also need the I2C lines (for control), vsync, and hsync > lines broken out. Because the d0-d3 lines aren't broken out, you'd loose a > lot of color depth, but oh well. You also can't use the standard GPIO > system interface from Linux to get it to work. Its just not fast enough to > handle the camera signals. HOWEVER - what you could do is use the PRUs and > their special high speed GPIOs to talk to a CMOS camera module in parallel > mode. The PRUs have access to system memory as well, so you can allocate a > block of the system memory to shove images. It also appears someone has > already done this with a cheap CMOS camera from eBay. > http://www.element14.com/community/community/knode/single-board_computers/next-gen_beaglebone/blog/2013/08/18/bbb--imaging-with-a-pru-connected-camera > > Nathaniel Lewis > CTO at E1FTW Games > 3rd year Undergraduate, Computer Science and Engineering > Project Manager for the Robotics Society at UC Merced > Undergraduate Lab Technician Intern at MESA Labs > (925) 309 9730 > [email protected] > > > On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 9:46 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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. >>> >>> Nathaniel Lewis >>> CTO at E1FTW Games >>> 3rd year Undergraduate, Computer Science and Engineering >>> Project Manager for the Robotics Society at UC Merced >>> Undergraduate Lab Technician Intern at MESA Labs >>> (925) 961 7578 >>> [email protected] >>> >>> On Jul 19, 2013, at 6:55 PM, AGSCalabrese <[email protected]> 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. >>> >>> Best Gus in Denver @99guspuppet >>> >>> On Jul 17, 2013, at 10:01 AM, [email protected] 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: >>>> >>>>> 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. >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss >>>>> >>>> >>>>> >>> -- >>> For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss >>> --- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "BeagleBoard" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >> For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "BeagleBoard" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. 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