uCam serial camera

Page last updated 14 Dec 2009, by Richard Sewell. 7 replies camera, imaging, Serial, ucam

uCam is an app which interfaces to the 4DSystems uCam JPEG camera module. It will get jpegs or bitmaps over a serial port at resolutions up to 640x480 in colour or monochrome.

Here's the camera datasheet:

http://www.4dsystems.com.au/downloads/micro-CAM/Docs/uCAM-DS-rev2.pdf

I bought mine here (make sure you get the TTL version):

http://www.coolcomponents.co.uk/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=45&products_id=369

This app is part of the work for a Dorkbot Bristol project, theeyestheeyes. You can find more background and construciton detail here:

http://code.google.com/p/theeyestheeyes/

The classes are:

UCam - implements the camera protocol

SerialBuffered - provide serial buffering. You need this to support UCam.

Frame - provides simple frame-buffer management. You need this to support UCam.

MotionFinder - elementary motion detection algorithms.

ServoMinder - wraps up a Servo, provides constant-speed motion to a target position

If you just want to talk to the camera, copy UCam, SerialBuffered, and Frame into your project. The simplest usage would be:

UCamInit();

Frame* frame = UCamGetRaw( );

Enjoy!

ucam

7 comments

Antonio Arnone

# 03 Dec 2009

Hello

Tk so much I can not understand how it works

 

Please do you my explain to me ?

 

Regard

 

Antonio

Richard Sewell

# 03 Dec 2009

Antonio - I'm happy to help. Which part is giving  you trouble ?

R

Antonio Arnone

# 14 Jan 2010

Hello Sorry if I answer too later

due id like to connect the camera e save a file in a external memory, i guess there, there is just the command that interface the camera to micro and by cable show images on the tv.. is that right?

 

Regards

 

Antonio

Alex Sleat

# 19 May 2010

Hey, what sort of fps/resolution did you manage to get out of the mbed with this camera? Great work on theeyestheeyes project too!

Chafik Egho

# 15 Feb 2011 . Edited: 09 Jun 2011

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Fidias Dimitriou

# 19 Jan 2012

Hello Richard,

This look very intersting !!

Can I have A schematic of the mbed connections please? I am workingi n a project and i need to connect a camere to it .

Thanks

poonam pawar

# 30 Jun 2014

Hello sir,

Can this camera interfacing with FPGA virtex5 ml506 board is possible?

and from where I will get this camera can you send mi link or dealers details?

I require it urgently

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