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TTL Serial JPEG Camera with NTSC Video
| Jameco Part no. 2144340 | |
|---|---|
| Manufacturer | ADAFRUIT INDUSTRIES |
| Manufacturer no. | 397 |
| Catalog 132 , page 154 |
- Data Sheet (current) [895 KB ]
- Data Sheet (current) [2.1 MB ]
TTL Serial JPEG Camera with NTSC Video
This camera module can be a perfect project addition. It was designed to be used in security systems and does two main functions; it outputs NTSC video and can take snapshots of that video and transmit them over the TTL serial link. You can snap pictures at 640x480, 320x240 or 160x120 and they're pre-compressed JPEG images which makes them nice and small for easy storage to an SD card. It's perfect for a data-logging, security, photography, or robotics projects.
One nice thing about this particular camera is all the extras that come with it. For example, it has manually adjustable focus, auto-brightness, auto-white-balance, and auto-contrast taken care of for you as well as motion detection built in! That means you can have it alert your project when something moved in the frame.
Using the module is pretty easy and only requires two digital pins (or a TTL serial port). Default transmission rate is 38400 baud, but the baud rate can be adjusted if you need to transmit the images faster. Of course we wouldn't just leave you with a datasheet and a 'good luck'. The folks at Adafruit spent a lot of time researching the module and DSP to make a really nice Arduino library (for IDE versions 0022 and earlier) with example code that shows how to change the image size and compression quality, detect motion, control the video output stream, etc. If you are using the newest version of the Arduino IDE v1.0, see below for compatible library files. They also have a very detailed tutorial that will help get the most use out of your camera.
Specifications
- Module size: 32mm x 32mm
- Image sensor: CMOS 1/4 inch
- CMOS Pixels: 30M
- Pixel size: 5.6um x 5.6um
- Output format: Standard JPEG/M-JPEG
- White balance: Automatic
- Exposure: Automatic
- Gain: Automatic
- Shutter: Electronic rolling shutter
- SNR: 45DB
- Dynamic Range: 60DB
- Max analog gain: 16DB
- Frame speed: 640 x 480 @ 30fps
- Scan mode: Progressive scan
- Viewing angle: 120 degrees
- Monitoring distance: 10 meters, maximum 15meters (adjustable)
- Image size: VGA (640 x 480), QVGA (320 x 240), QQVGA (160 x 120)
- Baud rate: Default 38400, Maximum 115200
- Current draw: 75mA
- Operating voltage: DC +5V
- Communication: 3.3V TTL (Three wire TX, RX, GND)
- Full-featured Arduino library with examples that demonstrate how to use the camera. (for IDE 0022 and eariler)
- Full-featured Arduino library with examples that demonstrate how to use the camera. (for IDE version 1.0)
- DSP Management Tool (Windows only)(.exe) - Allows you to tweak pretty much everything on the camera as well as test it out via a serial port.
- A basic python sketch (.py) that will let you grab an image over a serial port. Good for testing when you can't use the DSP tool.
- Check out the detailed tutorial on how to use the camera module with and Arduino (and in general).
- Fabien's Netduino + Camera Tutorial (.pdf)
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