Adafruit OV5640 Camera Breakout - 160 Degree Wide Angle

SKU: ADA5841 Brand: Adafruit

Hobby-level microcontrollers are finally getting big and powerful enough to start handling camera modules that historically would have required a full...

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Hobby-level microcontrollers are finally getting big and powerful enough to start handling camera modules that historically would have required a full computer or FPGA to handle. The RP2040 and ESP32-Sx series of chips, for example, have enough pins to communicate with the 8-bit data output, DMA to quickly grab a frame, and the necessary RAM to buffer a raw snapshot. Now all Adafruit need is a nice camera module to make interfacing easy!

This Adafruit OV5640 Camera Breakout with 160 Degree Lens has a nice quality OV5640 camera with a 5 Megapixel sensor element, 160-degree very-wide angle fish-eye lens, and all the support circuitry you need. This version has a 160-degree focal angle for a very wide/distorted fisheye effect that's great for security systems or watching a big swath of the living room or roadway. Adafruit looked at existing camera modules and while this breakout board is backwards compatible, Adafruit made some improvements:

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 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 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 3.3V power jumper on DATA1, for auto-focusing camera modules
3.3V power-good LED on back that can be disabled

Technical Details

Product Dimensions: 35.7mm x 23.0mm x 17.5mm / 1.4" x 0.9" x 0.7"

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