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Hi Andy,

Thats awesome information, thanks heaps, I see they sell on the NZ
version of EBAY for Around US$15, cant wait to give it a go. 

For anyone following this thread, it appears that with just about any
cheap webcam or digital camera, you can extract and desolder the CMOS
sensor and interface to it via either parallel or serial, meaning you
control the data transfer speed. I have ordered some cheap as 300k
color digital cameras from my local electronics shop, will pull them
apart and have a go at interfacing to the CMOS sensor.

I have had a look at some of the cmos sensors from webcams we have at
work and if you look inside the window of the sensor with a
microscope, you can usually read the manufacturer and part number
etched into the die, very cool. Had a look inside the Elis 1024
Panavision chip and it actually has "Joe eats worms" etched on the
die, very funny.

Will keep updating this thread with my progress.

Cheers
Hein B
Auckland, New Zealand.

--- In AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com, "Andy Clark" <andy.clark@...> wrote:
>
> You could try the GameBoy camera, check out my old pages (if they still 
> work) at...
> 
> http://pages.zoom.co.uk/andyc/
> 
> It has digital control but an analog output.  You can (pretty much) 
> clock the data out at any rate although bear in mind that frame 
> exposure is a function of clock speed - slow clock=greater exposure.
> 
> If it looks promising, Google will find sites with much better info 
> than mine and you can pick up the camera from ebay for coppers.
>  
> At the moment I'm grabbing frames into an AT91SAM7S at 280KHz/pixel 
> through the onboard adc.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Andy
>