Listen closely to the soothing sound of the PiCowbell's ring, indicating that the Adafruit PiCowbell OV5640 Camera Breakout with a 120-Degree Low-Distortion Lens is now available.
Capture high-quality images with the OV5640 camera, equipped with a 5 Megapixel sensor and 120-degree low-distortion wide angle lens. This breakout board also includes all the necessary circuitry for effortless picture-taking on your Pico or Pico W. Choose to save as raw RGB for image analysis or use the built-in JPEG encoding to store images on an SD card or upload them to adafruit.io.
The RP2040 chip boasts a high-speed PIO interface peripheral and ample memory to connect with 'DVP' (8-bit parallel digital) cameras. These camera sensors feature 8 image data pins, as well as Pixel Clock, H Sync, and V Sync signals, an I2C configuration interface, and a Reset and Power Down pin. This results in a significant use of GPIO, but with 6 GPIO pins remaining after incorporating an SD card and shutter button.
Camera PiCowbell Features:
- Interface for OV5640 Camera module
VSync: GPIO 0
Power Down: GPIO 1
HSync: GPIO 2
Pixel Clock: GPIO 3
SDA/SCL: GPIO 4 and GPIO 5
8-bit Digital: GPIO6 through GPIO 13
Reset: GPIO 14 - Micro SD Card:
SPI on GPIO 16, GPIO 18 and GPIO 19
Chip select on GPIO 17
Optional SD Detect on GPIO 15 - Shutter button on GPIO 22
- Reset button
- 16 MHz 'XClock' generated by onboard oscillator
- Stemma QT port for I2C on GPIO 4 / 5
This module does not have auto-focus capability, it is a fixed 'infinite' focus module.
Each order comes with an assembled PCB, camera sensor, and two pieces of 20-pin pin header. You will need to solder in the header yourself, but it's a quick task.
Since this board has the camera pointing 'up', it's best to use our PiCowbell 'doubler' to have the Pico on one side with the BOOT button accessible, and then the camera on the other side. Or you can 'stack' the camera 'bell on top, best when you don't need easy access to the BOOT loading button.
Or, for a compact package, you can...
- Use the Pico Stacking Headers if you want to be able to plug into a breadboard or other accessory with sockets. Solder these onto the Pico so that the camera is on top.
- Use the Pico Socket Headers if you want to plug directly in and have a nice solid connection that doesn't have any poking-out-bits. Ditto, solder these into the Pico and plug the camera on top.
Technical Details
Product Dimensions: 53.0mm x 20.3mm x 7.1mm / 2.1" x 0.8" x 0.3"
Product Weight: 4.7g / 0.2oz
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