Addenda:
On the subject of me despising HDMI - we do have on-chip composite & S-video, so low-budget monitor driving comes for free. I continue to struggle to see why we want HDMI. It's extra silicon, extra cost, extra hassle. Someone, please make a use case.
On the subject of cameras - since they're a bit annoying to use (witness the tedium of attaching 'leopard board compatible' cameras to Beagle-XMs, does anyone want me to design in
a) a less-broken Leopardboard camera connector
b) a camera chip for which data exists?
c) a bit of cunning to allow a stereo pair of cameras, if I can?
d) a socket so people can fit, say, the camera from a Nokia N95 (which is a Micron (Aptina) MT9P001 - about as spiffy a camera as one could ask for, and a tenner from ebay including lens, piezo focus gubbins, and what appears to be a selectable filter for light levels... I haven't tied this, but would like to.
Obviously, this won't be to everyone's taste, and there's precious little commonality among cameras (although the flex-mounted Omnivision cameras exist in various resolutions in the same package - maybe they're candidates? (although data isn't freely available, it does exist).
Discuss, or I'll do what I fancy :)
Steve
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