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jgauthier

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Hello,

I'm looking for an MCPU that can interface with a camera, and wireless. My objective is to grab the video data and send it over the wifi signal. One wifi device I am looking at is the 88W8801 which can be connected using a couple high speed interfaces (USB, SPI). Anyone have experience with an MCPU that can offer a recommendation?
 

Harald Kapp

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Have you seen the ESP32CAM? Inexpensive, with camera, WiFi, easy to program
 

jgauthier

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I haven't seen that one. Thanks for the recommendation. I am going to order a couple and see if they can pump 720p at 30FPS, which is my target resolution and frame rate.
 

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720 p: yes
resolutionframesize
10UXGA(1600×1200)
9 SXGA(1280×1024)
8 XGA(1024×768)
7 SVGA(800×600)
6 VGA(640×480)
5 CIF(400×296)
4 QVGA(320×240)
3 HQVGA(240×176)
0 QQVGA(160×120)
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Table from here (German, sorry, but very informative). Here's another page in English, also very good.

30 fps: might be possible, see here. Will depend on resolution and quality. My own experiments resulted in more like 5 - 10 fps :( But I had only tinkered with the camera and by no means done any optimization. Also used max frame size, not 720p.
 

jgauthier

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I saw that same thread. I am going to give it a try. It was cheap enough. If that doesn't work I may try an STM32H7 series. I have a nucleo that I can try. They are quick little things, but not sure if they are good enough for this.
 
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