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OV5640 5MP Camera Breakout with 160° Wide Angle Lens
· MPN: ADA5841
This breakout makes it easier to add a camera module to capable hobby microcontrollers without needing a full computer or FPGA. It uses an OV5640 camera with...
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This breakout makes it easier to add a camera module to capable hobby microcontrollers without needing a full computer or FPGA. It uses an OV5640 camera with a 5 Megapixel sensor element and a very-wide 160-degree fish-eye lens.
The lens gives a wide, distorted view that suits security systems, room monitoring or watching a broad section of a roadway. The board is designed for microcontrollers such as the RP2040 and ESP32-Sx series that can handle the 8-bit data output, DMA frame capture and RAM needed to buffer a raw snapshot.
Adafruit has added support circuitry and layout improvements to make prototyping simpler, including breadboard-friendly header options, selectable clock generation, thermal handling, an optional motor power jumper and a disable-able power-good LED.
Features:
- Standard header: Standard 2x9 header if you want it, but also a duplicated header strip 0.3" apart so you can plug it into a breadboard or perfboard
- Selectable clock generation: Selectable external or internal 24MHz "XCLK" clock generation - save one gpio pin, or just have a nice stable 24 MHz signal even if your microcontroller can't generate it for you.
- Heat-sinking camera area: Heat-sinking camera area with exposed ground pad, with lots of vias for good thermal transfer. Helpful for when doing continuous encoding and reducing thermal image drift.
- Optional VMotor jumper: Optional VMotor 3.3V power jumper on DATA1, for auto-focusing camera modules
- Power-good LED: 3.3V power-good LED on back that can be disabled
Specifications:
- Product Dimensions: 35.7mm x 23.0mm x 17.5mm / 1.4" x 0.9" x 0.7"
A handy camera breakout for experimenting with embedded imaging, wide-area monitoring and microcontroller-based vision projects.
Jargon buster
Plain-language definitions for the technical terms used above.
- breakout
- A breakout board carries a small or fine-pitched component and brings its connections out to standard, breadboard- and header-friendly pins. Describing a part as a breakout means it can be wired into a project without soldering directly to the component's tiny contacts.
- ESP32
- ESP32 is a family of low-cost microcontroller chips and modules from Espressif with built-in WiFi and Bluetooth. They support programmable firmware and over-the-air updates, and are commonly programmed with toolchains such as the Arduino core and ESP-IDF.
- GPIO
- General-purpose input/output pins are microcontroller pins you can set in software to read signals, switch devices on and off, or connect to peripherals. The number of GPIO pins matters because it limits how many buttons, LEDs, sensors, and other parts you can wire directly to the board.
- LED
- A light-emitting diode (LED) is a small electronic component that emits light when current flows through it in the correct direction. Because it only conducts one way, its polarity matters, and a through-hole LED must be soldered the correct way around to light up.
- microcontroller
- A microcontroller is a small computer on a single chip that runs a stored program and controls connected inputs and outputs such as buttons, sensors, displays and communication interfaces. In a device built around one, it is the part that executes the code and coordinates the device's behaviour.
- OV5640
- A specific camera sensor chip that captures still images or video data for a microcontroller or processor. The exact sensor matters because code examples, wiring, resolution, autofocus support and data format depend on the chip model.
- RAM
- RAM (random-access memory) is fast, temporary memory a device uses for working data while it is running; in its common volatile form, its contents are lost when power is removed. Some devices offer a mode that applies settings to RAM only, which is handy for testing changes temporarily because they are not stored permanently and disappear at power-off.
- RP2040
- The RP2040 is a dual-core Arm Cortex-M0+ microcontroller chip from Raspberry Pi, used on many maker boards and offering programmable I/O, multiple GPIO pins and reasonable processing speed. Code and accessories built for that chip should work where RP2040 compatibility is listed, though demanding tasks such as reading a camera can require careful pin allocation and timing.
- XCLK
- An external clock signal supplied to some camera sensors so their internal timing stays stable. It matters because your microcontroller or the camera board must provide the right clock for the sensor to output image data reliably.
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