Re: [Balloon] Balloon4 - progress & questions...

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Author: Hector Oron
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To: steve
CC: balloon
Subject: Re: [Balloon] Balloon4 - progress & questions...
Hi,

2011/5/23 Steve Wiseman <>:

> Addenda:


> 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 :)


Might be interesting to have two cameras so we can do stereoscopic
vision, but I have not looked anything on that line and possibly needs
further discussion.

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