Working with the C328 Camera Module
Whelzorn
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Alright, so it seems like a few people have ordered these things so far, and if not you can find them here: www.electronics123.com/s.nl/it.A/id.2581/.f (thanks Harrison.)
I set it up on a breadboard using a 3.3v regulator I got from parallax, and a prop plug to communicate with it directly.
The documentation for these thing is actually not as bad as I thought (www.electronics123.net/amazon/datasheet/C328-7640UM_V3.PDF) and I've been able to command it well enough using Realterm and just sending it the Hex manually.
But obviously this is a problem because it sends back packets of data which need to be collected and decoded into a JPEG, or uncompressed RAW data, depending what you asked it for. I have no idea how to do this. Normally I would write a python script to do the work for me, but I run XP 64-bit edition (bad idea) and pySerial (python's serial module) doesn't work with it.
To sum it up, I am looking for a way to talk to this thing other than manually typing in the hex string and clicking send. If anyone's got a simple VB program, script, or anything that just gets pictures from it, that would be awesome.
I set it up on a breadboard using a 3.3v regulator I got from parallax, and a prop plug to communicate with it directly.
The documentation for these thing is actually not as bad as I thought (www.electronics123.net/amazon/datasheet/C328-7640UM_V3.PDF) and I've been able to command it well enough using Realterm and just sending it the Hex manually.
But obviously this is a problem because it sends back packets of data which need to be collected and decoded into a JPEG, or uncompressed RAW data, depending what you asked it for. I have no idea how to do this. Normally I would write a python script to do the work for me, but I run XP 64-bit edition (bad idea) and pySerial (python's serial module) doesn't work with it.
To sum it up, I am looking for a way to talk to this thing other than manually typing in the hex string and clicking send. If anyone's got a simple VB program, script, or anything that just gets pictures from it, that would be awesome.