Video peripherals

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The Open.OC2 board is designed with onboard video processing in mind, and therefore has an extensive set of camera I/O connectors. On this page, we discuss camera I/O in detail. For the pinouts of the camera ports refer to Pinouts.

CSI-0, CSI-2

These connectors follow a standard pinout making them compatible with (for example) Raspberry Pi camera boards. The pitch of the connectors is however different from the one used for Raspberry Pi cameras, a specific flex PCB is required.

CSI-4

This is an extended video interface through a micro-coax connector. Such cables are very suitable for use to connect to moving parts on a gimbal.
The connector carries the following signals:

  • 1x 4-lane CSI-2
  • 1x SPI
  • 1x USB2.0
  • 2x I2C
  • 5V Power
  • 3.3V Power

Take-Air can supply a gimbal board with the following features:

  • On-board Accelerometer/gyroscope XXXX
  • FPC connector compatible with Raspberry Pi camera module
  • USB connector for secondary camera (for example: thermal)

GIM(bal)

A seperate JST-GH(4) port containing an i2c connection that can be used to connect to an IMU on the CSI-4 port.
This port can for example be used in combination with the CSI-0 and CSI-2 port on a Waveshare IMX219 stereo camera.