Deep Dive w/Scott: CircuitPython CSI Camera!

The mechanics of a camera or designing our own.

So we're talking about getting camera support in CircuitPython.

So what is the setup I have here? It looks like a little bit.

Let me actually put my fingers on here.

Try to get it a little bit better focused.

Oh, that's much better.

so um what we have here is this is the esp32p4 dev kit and right here i have a camera it has a little ribbon cable to here and then an adapter to kind of like a more standard csi cable and then this display is a dsi display and i think i should be able to flip it so this is the setup for the esp32p4 so there's a p4 running here this is running circuit python um we have two different uh usbs one is the like debug serial jtag port the other one is um the high speed port for circuit python and then there's actually a third usb that you can't see this one here this one is just power for the display And then we have two ribbon cables.

This ribbon cable is the DSI.

So this is the high-speed display interface, and this is the high-speed camera interface.

These

ribbon cables will look very familiar to folks who are coming from the Raspberry Pi world because they use these ribbon cables for that.

And so I showed you that there's this thing, but this is actually a live view of the camera.

I haven't gotten the camera looking that great.

Honestly, so if I put my hand here, you can see my hand there's my wedding ring.

I don't know exactly what the field of view of the camera is but it's just a little cropped image and why don't I show you and it's pretty fast, which is good, and this is actually running through display io.

So let's see.

Tim Orling says, I would like a tour of the brown drawers with white labels behind you.

Hey, so they're boxes.

This is one of my favorite things about storing microcontrollers.

So my job is bringing CircuitPython to new devices.

And manufacturers of new chips will produce a dev kit.

And I use these boxes, not exclusively, but often to store different dev kits.

And I am wirelessly linked.

You nerd snicked me.

So let me go to the camera.