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Is there any chance that i could connect this little phone camera to computer?

>> No.161145

bump

>> No.161148

bump

>> No.161149

Can you find a datasheet on it and do you have microcontroller experience?

>> No.161150

>blurry pic
>can't even make out the shape
>don't say what phone its from

meh. troll. reported.

>> No.161151

>>161149
all i can see typed on it is u806(2640) R2.0 A-KERR 08.12.25

>> No.161152

>>161150
it's from a ZTE

>> No.161157

anything?

>> No.161160

>>161151
>>161152
Try googling the writing to bring up a datasheet. Without a datasheet you won't even know which wire is ground and which is power.

It is often not possible to find datasheets on components pulled from electronics online. Companies like to keep some things confidential. There was a contest on SparkFun a while ago to get a random cellphone camera to work with no datasheet. The winner had a lot of experience and put a month of effort into it.

>> No.161161

>>161157

First you need camera's datasheet, then you need to build interface electronics for it (with some luck Arduino or something similar suffices) and then you need to write a program for receiving and displaying images from that camera.

Somehow I get the idea that you won't succeed.

>> No.161162

Not OP but I totally would love to make something like this.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/241960/throw_this_camera_ball_to_take_a_360degree_panorama.html
And being that old cellphones are dirt cheep, I fell it's well withing the realm of possibility...

I've got nothing. Just interest.

>> No.161166

I had some cameras from different salvaged phones, datasheets are impossible to find.

However i found some service manuals for the phones with schematics and pinouts in it. Those were no help either, no information or whatsoever.

A possible solution might be if you have a working phone, is to probe the pins, and use a logic analyzer to guess the commands and workings of the cam. Its quite hard if you dont have any decent equipment.

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161170

what if i still have the main board?

>> No.161173

>>161170

See >>161166

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>>161173

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>>161143
No. Most cell phone cameras use a high-speed serial interface called MIPI (Mobile Industry Processor Interface) for image data, and a separate bi-directional low-speed serial port called I2C for commands.

Most laptop camera modules use USB, so it should be possible to use one of those. However, the easiest solution would be to gut a USB web-camera, because you'll get the cable and won't have to guess at the pin-out.

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>>161181
well i have this webcam wiht no lenses

>> No.161388

>>161143
Not without significant amounts of support electronics, and after all that effort you have a shit-tier camera connected to your computer, about the quality of a $15 USB webcam. You're better off buying a camera than screwing with that piece of junk.

>> No.161391

>>161143
This should be pretty easy. you should have power input and camera feed output. Just guessing around and playing with it can get it working for you without much fear of damaging it so long as the power input isn't too high.

>> No.161396

>>161181
A beagleboard might be fast enough to do MIPI. i2c is real easy as well.