{"title":"Adafruit OV5640 Camera Breakout - 120 Degree Lens","handle":"adafruit-ov5640-camera-breakout-120-degree-lens","url":"/products/adafruit-ov5640-camera-breakout-120-degree-lens","description":"A high-quality 5 Megapixel camera breakout designed for hobby-level microcontrollers like the RP2040 and ESP32-S series. The OV5640 sensor with a 120-degree wide-angle lens connects via an 8-bit parallel data interface, making it compatible with chips that have enough pins, DMA, and RAM to capture frames directly.\n\nThis breakout improves on existing camera modules with breadboard-friendly headers, selectable clock generation, improved thermal management, and support for auto-focus camera modules.\n\nKey Features\n\n\nOV5640 5 MP Sensor – High-resolution camera with 120-degree wide-angle lens\n\nBreadboard Friendly – Standard 2×9 header plus a duplicated header strip 0.3″ apart for breadboard or perfboard mounting\n\nSelectable 24 MHz Clock – Use the onboard XCLK oscillator to save a GPIO pin, or provide an external clock from your microcontroller\n\nThermal Management – Heat-sinking camera area with exposed ground pad and thermal vias to reduce drift during continuous encoding\n\nAuto-Focus Support – Optional VMotor 3.3 V power jumper on DATA1 for auto-focusing camera modules\n\nPower-Good LED – 3.3 V indicator on the back (can be disabled)\n\n8-Bit Parallel Interface – Compatible with RP2040, ESP32-S2/S3, and other microcontrollers with sufficient pins and DMA\n\n\nCompatibility\n\nRP2040-based boards (Raspberry Pi Pico, Feather RP2040, etc.)\nESP32-S2 and ESP32-S3 boards\nAny microcontroller with 8+ data pins, DMA, and sufficient RAM for frame buffering\n\n\nIdeal For\n\nMicrocontroller-based image capture projects\nWide-angle surveillance and monitoring\nMachine vision and object detection\nTime-lapse photography\nQR code and barcode scanning\n\n\nPackage Contents\n\n1× Adafruit OV5640 Camera Breakout with 120-degree wide-angle lens\n\n\nResources\n\n\nOV5640 Camera Breakout Learn Guide – Wiring, setup, and example code\n","vendor":"Adafruit","product_type":"physical","in_stock":true,"options":[],"variants":[{"id":1785,"title":"Default Title","sku":"AF-5673","price":40.36,"on_sale":false,"in_stock":true,"available_quantity":100,"option1":"Default Title"}]}