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|   August  2, 2008 at 2:36 AM

Need... breakout... board... (gasp)... (gasp)...

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|   September 11, 2008 at 9:44 AM

Anyone got this camera up and running yet? I have soldered the wires to the camera, wasn't that hard, but haven't done any interface attempts yet..

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|   September 30, 2008 at 6:25 PM

Breakout Board Please!

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|   November 13, 2008 at 9:50 PM

Breakout board available??

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|   January 20, 2009 at 7:55 AM

breakout board ??

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|   January 22, 2009 at 1:39 AM

Even though this forum thread is for the other (higher-res) camera for sale, it sounds like noone really knows how to get this thing working, regardless of there being a breakout board available.

http://forum.sparkfun.com/viewtopic.php?t=10314

buyer beware
-e

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|   May 21, 2009 at 5:06 PM

This small one isn't too bad to read, but you need a fairly powerful microprocessor to get the data off in time. I hooked it up to an ARM Cortex M3 STM32: http://negativeacknowledge.com/2009/05/robot2-an-arm-based-colour-tracking-robot/

Essentially you just need to set the registers referred to in the datasheet to suitable values (only two really need changing) and then grab the data streaming off it.

The code I used is at http://github.com/randomskk/followingrobot which includes a short bit of inline assembler that reads each line of data.

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|   June 15, 2009 at 4:44 PM

More information:

http://www.arl.army.mil/arlreports/2009/ARL-TN-344.pdf

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|   August 12, 2009 at 12:21 AM

how does the device output if you set it to W/B? does YUV give you 4bpp? RGB? Or something else entirely?

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|   December  8, 2009 at 4:17 AM

As far as i can tell, there is no Black and White mode....

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|   December 30, 2009 at 1:29 PM

you could do that part with software though.

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|   January 19, 2010 at 9:57 AM

On page 9 of the documentation, register 3, bit 0 lists as color mode. The options are zero for color or 1 for B/W, which I assume is black white mode. Does this bit do anything to the output?

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|   October  5, 2009 at 6:51 AM

The pin layout in the datasheet is wrong, there is no flattened corner that denotes pin 1. The green sticker, that protected the lense, has a flattened corner, but can I rely on that?
There is a tiny piece of plastic at the ring of the lense, that I "guess" is pin 1. At least with that direction, I can measure "something" from pin 15 to all other pins. Pin 15 should be IOVSS (GND for I/O).
However, I would feel much better, if that would be clearer.

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|   October  5, 2009 at 6:57 AM

I just found that photo from Randomskk, there you can see the small plastic nipple with a green dot:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/randomskk/3225194149/sizes/l/in/set-72157607851550306/

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|   October 15, 2009 at 11:07 PM

I built a breakout board for this camera to use in a class on FPGAs I'm taking. I'd be more than willing to hand over the PCB design to SparkFun so they could sell the the breakout board.

Here's a picture of the populated breakout boards:
http://base2.us/images/camera-bob.jpg

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|   October 31, 2009 at 3:37 PM

Can I buy some breakout from you ?

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|   December 10, 2009 at 7:50 AM

Hello there
I just got the camera that we hade ordered.
It seems hard to make any breakout board for it. I want to use it with zigbee.
Can you help me to find any breakout board or how can i buy any breakout board?
the camera module
CMOS Camera - 640x480
sku: SEN-08667

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|   January  7, 2010 at 4:30 PM

Is this the same as the TCM8240MD (note 8240 instead of 8230) in Sparkfun's Eagle part library?

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|   January  7, 2010 at 8:22 PM

In the datasheet (on page 4) there is a diagram of the pin layout, which shows the 20 pins around the edges. What are the pads on the bottom surface of the camera? (Visible in the fourth picture above) Are they more pins, or duplicates, or nothing?

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|   January 12, 2010 at 1:59 PM

Does anyone create a Eagle layout for the breakout board yet?