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cyberfish:
Hello,

I am looking for a tiny camera for my project (essentially a video camera fixed to glasses that will be recording 24/7).

The smallest I can find is about 1cm diameter, on ebay, marketed as "endoscopes". Things like this -
http://cgi.ebay.ca/5M-USB-Snake-Camera-Tupe-Inspection-Endoscope-borescope-/320656250114?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4aa89a1502

I believe they are just regular USB webcams.

Does anyone have experience interfacing them to embedded systems? I am thinking about using FTDI's Vinculum II chip as USB host controller + microcontroller. Ideally it would be UVC compatible...

I was wondering if anyone knows where I can find even smaller cameras. Google has been very unhelpful since people like to call 5cm cameras "micro", and whatever other small words I tried.

The interface doesn't really matter. Ideally has hardware encoding (MJPEG is fine, which I believe all UVC cameras support).

Anyone seen something like that?

Thanks!

Kiriakos-GR:
Get one of those and hack it.

http://cgi.ebay.ca/Lighter-DVR-Mini-DV-Spy-Hidden-Camera-Cam-Camcorder-4GB-/120685885460?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item1c19707814

Psi:
Sparkfun have a few tiny cameras

http://www.sparkfun.com/products/8667

http://www.sparkfun.com/products/8668

soldering them could be tricky :P

DavidDLC:
For those cameras you solder the base and then snap the camera on it.

Get a camera from a cel phone ?

There are phone's schematics on the internet so you know how to connect them.

mikeselectricstuff:
Some cellphone cams are super-tiny -ISTR seeing a lowish-res one about a 6mm cube inc lens. These cams generally have a raw pixel data+clock interface, plus I2C for setup, so you'll need to add JPEG etc. compression & all the Bayer processing stuff. Small cams may also need lens shading correction.

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