A little camera help needed

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• Mike Green Posts: 23,101

  2013-02-09 20:35 edited 2013-02-09 20:35

  The actual hardware interface is asynchronous serial. You need to have the TTL version of the camera. I think you can run the camera off 3.3V in which case you can directly connect RxD and TxD to Propeller I/O pins although I'd use a 220 Ohm or 330 Ohm series resistor in these leads to protect from programming errors. If you have to run the camera off 5V, you'd need a 2K series resistor.
  
  Don't expect to be able to do things with the actual image. What you get from the camera is a JPG file and the Propeller doesn't have the memory or processing power to decode the image from the JPG file. You could store the JPG file on an SD card as a file and later decode it using a PC.
  
  Have a look at the documentation from SparkFun's webstore page.
• NWCCTV Posts: 3,629

  2013-02-09 21:35 edited 2013-02-09 21:35

  Thanks Mike. As always you set me straight!!!! I was thinking I could actually get a video feed!!! Oh well, thanks again!!!
• kwinn Posts: 8,697

  2013-02-11 08:18 edited 2013-02-11 08:18

  With a prop you could probably convert the serial data to a video feed at the lower resolutions (QVGA) of the chip.