On Wed, June 18, 2008 12:40 pm, christopher bradski wrote: > Good Morning Community, > I was browsing around the other day and found a cmos camera at > http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=8668. Its a > 1.3 mega pixel camera and doesn't have much current draw and under $10. > I'm > not an electrical engineer but was wondering how feasible(with some > soldering skills and a basic electronic understanding) it would be to > attach > this the the freerunner? The data sheet is included on the site. Thank you > all in advance for your help.
I assume you are thinking of building a small daughter board with the camera on, connecting that board to the freerunner mainboard somehow, and mounting the camera in a modded case? I would say your chances of adding one to an existing freerunner is quite slim. The freerunner has an I2C bus to control it so that part would be easy, but it looks like it needs an 8 bit I/O port to get the picture data out, and I don't think the freerunner has an accessable one you could tap into. Also the whole camera is surface mount, which would make it fairly tricky to mount on your daughter board. None of these things would prevent a camera like this being included in a future OpenMoko design, but don't think it would be possible for anyone to add a camera like this to an existing phone. If you want a working camera on your freerunner, then I suggest you look for one that connects via USB, as that is a much easer bus to connect to. -- David Pottage Error compiling committee.c To many arguments to function. _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
