Arducam Mini Module Camera Shield with OV2640 2 Megapixels Lens for Arduino UNO Mega2560 Board

Great

I am impressed by the quality of this camera (2MP version) purchased for just under £25. Admittedly there was no setup information supplied with the product but an email address quickly resulted in some links to appropriate instructions and software. The camera worked first time and, using the manual focus, produced sharp, colourful images. I had a bit of difficulty getting it to save images to my hard drive but an email exchange quickly sorted that out. Highly recommend both product and service.

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Received in good quality and it works!

We have integrated the Arducam into our product the ImOkBox and have obtained fantastic results. The ArduCAM Mini lives in two worlds and excels in each. In the Arduino world, it is simply a matter a plugging the device into the header and loading the very well written and commented Sketch.(Sketch is the term for an Arduino programming project.) With one of the provided Sketches you can step through the different camera sensor resolutions and capture images to the SD card. The Sketch sends status information through the UART console. The image quality is amazing. This is a high quality image sensor with a great lens. The other world in which the ArduCAM Mini hits the mark is in commercial products. The genius in the ArduCAM design is that they have abstracted away all the complexity of the image sensor data transfer using their FPGA while keeping direct I2C register access to the sensor. Once the I2C registers have been loaded with the suggested settings, a two character command through the SPI port allows you to capture an image then transfer it at your leisure through the SPI. Using the example Sketches and the excellent documentation .PDFs we were able to start "talking" to the sensor from a non-Arduino platform during the first development session. ArduCAM supplies all the suggested I2C register settings for the sensor for various resolutions. So far I have not needed to tweak a single one but if I needed to, it would just be a simple I2C write. Though a previous reviewer is correct that the ArduCAM mini is a little complex for the Raspberry Pi (Note: ArduCAM makes a superb camera just for the Raspberry Pi) the tradeoff for the "complexity" is that if you are comfortable with working with SPI and I2C on a microcontroller, your 8 bit or 32 bit device can now implement crystal clear still photography with just a few SPI and I2C commands. If we'd tried to implement a direct camera sensor interface on 32 bit ARM silicon, we would be months away from a prototype. Instead, today, using the ArduCAM Mini and less than a hundred lines of C we're uploading 1024 x 768 images to our Twitter API application (@imokbox_dovey) every minute of every day using a $2.50 Freescale microcontroller. If you are comfortable with I2C and SPI communication, or you are willing to put in the effort to learn, this camera delivers everything you could ask for in a still camera. The support team is very responsive, the documentation is clear and provides examples and the working code in their Git Hub repository is professional and well commented.