When odd errors occur I first look at the power supplies. You might put a
scope on the camera board power supplies, maybe try tacking on some
capacitors.

Good luck!

  Ron
 On Oct 21, 2014 5:44 PM, "Peter Torelli" <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> Thanks for googling but I already read that guy's page. :)  His page is
> why during debug I experimented with transfer rate, buffer size, and
> compression rate (slowest possible buffer at slowest speed).
>
> As for twisted pair, there is less than 1mm of wire between the camera and
> my Arduino UNO input pin, so not much to twist. If it can't xfer data at
> 9600 baud without errors.. ugh.
>
> P
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 3:20 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On 2014-10-21 12:20, Peter Torelli wrote:
>>
>>> Has anyone used a VC0706 chip plus camera? <snip>
>>>
>>
>> Sorry to play "Google Expert", but it looks like someone else has seen
>> the same thing:
>> http://fabienroyer.wordpress.com/2011/08/12/driving-an-
>> adafruit-vc0706-ttl-serial-jpeg-camera-with-a-netduino/
>>
>> Quoting his article:
>> Out of 100 pictures taken at the higher resolution, only one did not have
>> any artifacts.
>> [...]
>> In the large and medium resolutions, 1 picture out of 100 is generally
>> corrupt and cannot be viewed. There could be several root causes for these
>> artifacts and data corruptions:
>>
>> 1. The connection I’m using between the camera and the Netduino is not
>> shielded or twisted to minimize radio and electromagnetic interference. I
>> haven’t had the chance to validate this yet.
>>
>> 2. The serial buffer size vs. the baud rate is critical in minimizing
>> errors: I was able to read a maximum of 120 bytes at a time @ 115200 baud
>> without losing data with the current connection to the camera. Larger
>> buffers only seem to increase the error rate to unacceptable levels which
>> makes reading large images a slow process. Again, a shielded and twisted
>> cable would likely help using larger buffers.
>>
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