Adafruit PiCowBell Camera Breakout - Wide Angle 160 Degree Lens

The Adafruit PiCowbell OV5640 Camera Breakout with 160-Degree Wide-Angle Lens is a quality 5 Megapixel sensor camera breakout designed to work with the Raspberry Pi Pico or Pico W. It features a wide 160-degree field of view lens and support circuitry to capture raw RGB images or JPEG images for saving or streaming. The board offers an interface for the OV5640 camera module, a micro SD card slot for storage, and onboard shutter and reset buttons.

This board interfaces with the RP2040 microcontroller via a fast PIO interface capable of handling parallel digital (DVP) camera data. Multiple GPIO pins are used for camera signals including VSync, Power Down, HSync, Pixel Clock, SDA/SCL, data pins, and Reset. Additional pins support an SPI micro SD card and buttons. The camera module lens is fixed focus (no auto-focus capability).

Features:

• 5 Megapixel OV5640 camera sensor
• 160-degree wide angle fixed focus lens
• DVP 8-bit parallel digital interface compatible with RP2040 PIO
• Micro SD card slot with SPI interface
• Shutter button and reset button on board
• Onboard 16 MHz oscillator for camera clock (XClock)
• Stemma QT port for I2C connection
• Compact dimensions: 53.0mm x 20.3mm x 11.6mm
• Lightweight at 5.4g
• Includes assembled PCB, camera sensor, and two 20-pin headers for soldering

This breakout is ideal for projects requiring wide-angle camera input on the RP2040 platform, such as image analysis, photography, or IoT applications.