Adafruit PiCowBell Camera Breakout - Wide Angle 120 Degree Lens

The Adafruit PiCowbell OV5640 Camera Breakout with 120° Wide-Angle Lens adds a 5-megapixel camera with a broad 120-degree field of view to your Raspberry Pi Pico or Pico W. The wide-angle lens captures more of the scene in each frame, making it ideal for surveillance, environmental monitoring, and panoramic imaging. Capture raw RGB images for analysis or use the OV5640's built-in JPEG encoding to save photos to a microSD card.

The RP2040's fast PIO peripheral handles the 8-bit parallel DVP camera interface, while the onboard 16 MHz oscillator provides the required clock signal. A microSD card slot, shutter button, reset button, and STEMMA QT connector are all included on board, with 6 GPIO pins still available.

Key Features

• OV5640 5MP Camera – 120-degree wide-angle lens, fixed infinite focus (no autofocus)
• 8-bit DVP Interface – Uses RP2040 PIO for fast parallel data capture (GPIO 0–14)
• MicroSD Card Slot – SPI on GPIO 16–19, optional card detect on GPIO 15
• Shutter Button – Dedicated button on GPIO 22
• STEMMA QT / Qwiic – I2C connector on GPIO 4/5 for additional sensors
• 16 MHz Onboard Oscillator – Generates XClock for the camera module
• Reset Button – Quick restart access

Pin Assignments

• Camera – VSync (0), PWDN (1), HSync (2), PCLK (3), SDA/SCL (4/5), D0–D7 (6–13), Reset (14)
• MicroSD – SPI (16, 18, 19), CS (17), Detect (15)
• Shutter – GPIO 22

Ideal For

• Wide-angle surveillance and environmental monitoring
• Panoramic image capture with Pico
• Computer vision projects needing a broad field of view
• IoT camera applications with Pico W

Also Consider

• PiCowbell Camera – 120° Low Distortion (Fixed Focus) – Wide angle with minimal barrel distortion
• PiCowbell Camera – Autofocus 120° Lens – Wide angle with autofocus motor
• PiCowbell Camera – Autofocus 72° Lens – Standard angle with autofocus

Package Contents

• 1× PiCowbell Camera Breakout PCB (assembled)
• 1× OV5640 Camera Sensor with 120-degree wide-angle lens
• 2× 20-pin header strips (soldering required)