Are you locked into the Ericsson camera?

I've seen the "low res" T-mobile sidekick camera on eBay for $9.00.
Right now, there's one seller selling them for $12.00 plus an
exorbitant $9 shipping, so i'd avoid that one.  There's also a "high
res" version that puts out (~350x280 if I recall.  Note that the high
res one is actually low res, so the low res one basically takes
pictures the size of a postage stamp.)

The cameras are basically kyrocera cameras with a 3.3v SPI interface.
This page has links to lots of pages about the camera:  The focus of
this article was to find out how to get data into the "Hiptop" cell
phone, but there's enough information and links to hook one of these up
to a PIC.  Check page 2 for links to lots of pages (in Japanese) of
people hacking this camera.

http://homepage.mac.com/eric3/danger/cameraworld.htm

These cameras use a "digital retina" chip that has lots of other useful
features such as edge detection.

Not really much info on the Ericsson, but possibly an alternative for
you.

Jake

On Jun 14, 2004, at 3:17 AM, Russell McMahon wrote:

>> Russell;
>> I am working on this also and have found alot of info.
>> The cell phone is just a GSM Modem.
>> You control it with an extended AT Command set.
>> Just buy a data cable(USB or serial) for your phone and you can talk
>> to it
>> with
>> Hyper Terminal using standard AT Commands.
>> You need to sign up as a developer with the phone Mfg. to get the
>> extended commands for your phone.
>>
>>
>> I have some good links for AT Commands
>>
>> You can e-mail me off list if you want
>> redrock8@alltel.net
>
> I am also interested in the ability to operate the camera on the phone
> via
> USB or Bluetooth BUT the main interest I had was in using the camera
> standalone - probably with a microcontroller.
>
>
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