Continuing with our promise to bring you a wider selection of Arduino-related kits and shields, RadioShack has introduced a camera board specifically designed for use with Arduino boards. This board should be available in most of our stores today, or you can order direct from RadioShack.com to have it shipped to your door.
RadioShack Camera Board
The RadioShack Camera Board (SKU 2760248) works with your Arduino board and other shields to help you create exciting camera applications. For example, you could build your own digital camera by adding a memory card shield (not included), which would allow you to store images that the camera captures, or you could add it to your project to see things from your project’s point of view.
If you already have the RadioShack Camera Board, the following link will provide the schematics, protocols, and sketches to get you started.
RadioShack Camera Board Support Files
Jeremy
I was able to get it working pretty easily, but getting the lens focused is a major issue.
Ricky Cadden
Thanks for the feedback, Jeremy! Sorry to hear you had such issues with the lens focus – any improvements you’d like to suggest, please do leave them here in the comments and we’ll make sure they get passed to the product team.
Jeremy
I’m not sure. In a perfect world, an auto-focus would be nice, but I understand that could become expensive…and the part is already $45. The threaded barrel style lens slips pretty easily if bumped or when adding or removing the lens cap. Suddenly I’ll have a bunch of shots out of focus and not realize it until I’m ready to check the images. I guess once a project is created and the part is in a project box, it would be focused and not touched again, so “set it and forget it” would work in the end. I haven’t tried the TV-out, that may help with a quick focus as well, but then I need to find a small portable screen that will take component input. I know Radio Shack carries some products like that, but I haven’t found anything for less than $100.
Even with this problem, it’s a fun little part to play with.
George Hahn
Perhaps a set screw on the lens would help?
George
The sample code seems to show how to write the data to an SD card. However, how would one send this data out via an XBEE, for example?
Tim Kepler
Here again radio shack produces what would seem to be a great product and boasts its abilitys only to leave with out any support on how to do anything they claim you can with there products… i bought this wanting to build the wifi camera it states clearly on the package you CAN build only to find out there is Zero documentation online for such a project…
My advice.. stick to selling cell phones radio shack..
Samuel
I tried running the sample code but for some reason the SdFat.h library was not working with the code despite all the other libraries being compatible. Is anyone else having this problem?