R-Pi camera is out!

[Jamie Mackenzie]

http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/3890

Apparently supply is expected to be sort for a while, in the same way that the R-Pi was hard to get hold of originally. So get in quick if ya want one early.

[Ken]

Apart from size, can someone tell me how this camera is better than USB webcams, which are cheaper, provide sound, and are readily available.

Ken.

On 15 May 2013 10:22, Jamie Mackenzie <jrrmac...@gmail.com> wrote:

http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/3890

Apparently supply is expected to be sort for a while, in the same way that the R-Pi was hard to get hold of originally. So get in quick if ya want one early.

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[Thomas Sprinkmeier]

On 15 May 2013 11:45, Ken <k...@waggies.net> wrote:

Apart from size, can someone tell me how this camera is better than USB webcams, which are cheaper, provide sound, and are readily available.

It connects via the dedicated headers rather than the USB port.

Lower overhead, higher bandwidth(?), more geek cred.


Thomas

[Steve Roehrs]

Since the RasPi ethernet is hanging off the one USB interface you might have a hard time pushing high rate USB video in and ethernet out over the same interface.

 

I'm assuming that the camera also has a direct feed into the GPU, which is the only way that full speed 1080p video could work.

 

Steve

 

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[Damien P]

On Wednesday, May 15, 2013 11:45:29 AM UTC+9:30, Ken wrote:

Apart from size, can someone tell me how this camera is better than USB webcams, which are cheaper, provide sound, and are readily available.

I haven't looked recently, but it sounded like they get high resolution video from it, and it uses the GPU on the Pi to get better performance, and USB has limited bandwidth and uses the CPU more. 

The Brisbane hackerspace a while ago wanted to build a webcam on a rail that's controllable online.  There was nothing available at the time but a Pi with this camera would work well.

According to the ozhs list they're available from Element 14.