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Hi Tommy,

I've looked into this before, but it always circled back to the arduino simply having too little memory to be useful.

i found good alternatives though for my projects:

Arducam: this is a small serial interface camera that goes directly into the arduino IO. I guess this is more for a single capture or two, maybe ok for transmitting via wifi or xbee.
RPi + Alamode HAT: this was a really fun combination. the Alamode is an adruino that mates right to the RPi IO connector. That way I could grab and process images on the RPi, and offload all my IO things to the Alamode board. A nice bonus was that it also had a realtime clock with cr2032 backup battery :)
I've also got to plug the guys at GHI electronics. They build arm based board running .net micro framework. Once upon a time they even made an arduino clone board called Fez Domino. This had enough juice to run an rs232 camera that output jpgs. I tossed on my motor and xbee shields from the arduino and had a nice 'Mars rover' in a couple days. Their Cobra board was a big step up and could handle my webcam, and since then they've only gotten better.

.net micro is coding in C# also. It was a bit unnatural to watch this run on a microcontroller :), but oh so convenient!

i hope this helps!!

Hi Tommy,

I've looked into this before, but it always circled back to the arduino simply having too little memory to be useful.

i found good alternatives though for my projects:

1. Arducam: this is a small serial interface camera that goes directly into the arduino IO. I guess this is more for a single capture or two, maybe ok for transmitting via wifi or xbee.

2. RPi + Alamode HAT: this was a really fun combination. the Alamode is an adruino that mates right to the RPi IO connector. That way I could grab and process images on the RPi, and offload all my IO things to the Alamode board. A nice bonus was that it also had a realtime clock with cr2032 backup battery :)

3. I've also got to plug the guys at GHI electronics. They build arm based board running .net micro framework. Once upon a time they even&nbsp;made an arduino clone board called Fez Domino. This had enough &nbsp;juice to run an rs232 camera that output jpgs. I tossed on my motor and xbee shields from the arduino and had a nice 'Mars rover'&nbsp;in a couple days. Their Cobra board was a big step up and could handle my webcam, and since then they've only gotten better.

.net micro is coding in C# also. It was a bit unnatural to watch this run on a microcontroller :), but oh so convenient!

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i hope this helps!!

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