>After explosion it looks like a lot of neat things can be done with it.

Exploded, that's a good one ;) I would have said dismantled.

I have also acquired a 1.3 megapixel camera from a mobile phone - which was
in a more exploded state, in this case discarded from a passing car and run
over by an unknown number of vehicles. One of my colleagues who bicycles
almost everywhere picked it up.

The phone appears to be a Samsung D500, and the claim is that this is a
colour camera. I have got it out of what was left of the case, apparently
undamaged, despite the trauma the rest of the phone suffered. It appears to
be a variant of the standard 1/4, 1/3, 1/2" cmos sensors with a controller
on the back. I managed to find a circuit for the phone on a Russian website,
which confirms it has the seemingly ubiquitous I2C control bus and 8 bit
parallel video out bus.

However researching these little cameras shows there is no standardisation
in the registers used to control them. It seems that it probably has
anywhere between 64 and 80 registers to control all the camera functions.

The one thing I don't seem to be able to find is any data on this particular
camera. The circuit appears to give it a part number of AXK8l24115S and any
googling with that number just returns me to the circuit diagrams.

It would be nice to be able to use this in a project where the normally
available ones on little circuit boards are too big. This one is just the
chip size as the footprint with a flexible PCB coming out the back, making
for a smaller cross section than any of the ones one can purchase.

Does anyone here have any knowledge of Samsung product sources that might
help me please?

TIA

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