<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 5:40 AM, christopher bradski <<a href="mailto:chris.bradski@gmail.com">chris.bradski@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Good Morning Community,<br> I was browsing around the other day and found a cmos camera at <a href="http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=8668" target="_blank">http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=8668</a>. Its a 1.3 mega pixel camera and doesn't have much current draw and under $10. I'm not an electrical engineer but was wondering how feasible(with some soldering skills and a basic electronic understanding) it would be to attach this the the freerunner? The data sheet is included on the site. Thank you all in advance for your help. </blockquote>
</div><br><br>I took a quick look at the datasheet. You need an 8 bit parallel data port and I2C to control it. Does freerunner even have enough pins available to attempt an interface? I'm not sure what we have available in terms of expansion ports. I also seem to remember some talk in the sparkfun forums about it needing to clock the data out high enough speeds that microcontrollers have trouble keeping up. I know the Freerunner CPU is a lot faster than a normal micro, but it's also busy doing other things. <br>