---------- > From: Octavio Nogueira > > I read an article about an Integrated CMOS Image Sensor with > on-chip ADC made by VLSI Vision. > It's a monocrome 160x120 pixels digital camera sensor with serial > interface. It would be a great device to attach to a pic and send images > to a remote station. > More informations can be found on http://www.vvl.co.uk > The sensor is VV5300. Does anyone know where to buy one? There are a couple CMOS camera's out there now just getting to the point where they can be turned into commercial products. Photobit is an other company that has a CMOS sensor on a chip that still has production problems for mass produced items. It is 8bit 512X384 color. It is also promising 10ma current requiremments at 5 v. Most of the CCD camera's require several unusal voltages to interface to a processor. Connectix has both color and BW camera's that use PIC's The BW is 320 / 240 and costs about $100 US. Both of Connectix's camera's use TI sensors. One of developers at Byte Craft has a 5" scope that I adaped a Connectix color camera to be used instead of a standard 1 1/4 inch eyepiece. Makes great wallpaper on my PC at work there is a photo essay of the adapter and some images at http://otterdad.dyn.ml.org/astrocam/ Walter Banks