The ArduCAM USB camera shield is a universal camera control board designed for both PCs and embedded systems like the Raspberry Pi, TI Beaglebone, and similar products. It supports most parallel interface image sensors ranging from 0.3MP to 14MP, including both global and rolling shutter sensors. The camera is packaged with the software you need to put it to work on Windows and Linux systems and a comprehensive SDK library is provided to support this. This SDK is fully integrated with Python, which allows for direct integration of our cameras with your OpenCV based applications.

The plug and play USB control interface simplifies integrating the camera with a wide range of computer hardware. The ready to use SDK library and demo source code makes the software integration process straightforward and efficient. Users can make it work in minutes without writing a line of code. The broad range of modules ArduCAM supports, combined with support for formats like RAW, RGB, YUV, JPEG assures our users a successful outcome.

The ArduCAM USB camera shield joins our product line of shields that offer SPI/IC2 interfaces. The USB camera shield offers significant speed gains over the SPI camera shield, running at as high a frame rate as the USB2.0 480Mbps bandwidth allows which can deliver 640_480(VGA at 60 FPS, through 4384_3228(14MP) at 2 FPS. By using a global shutter camera headboard such as the MT9V034/AR0134 together with USB camera shield, the user can achieve industrial level machine vision with our camera on a Raspberry pi without effort.

The ArduCAM is straightforward enough that it can be easily used with PCs and single board computers such as the Raspberry Pi and the Beaglebone. In short, the ArduCAM brings a plug and play solution to digital cameras at the hardware level.

Specification:

For both PCs and embedded systems like Raspberrypi

For parallel interface camera modules ranging from 0.3MP to 14MP

Format support: RAW,YUV,RGB,JPEG

Size: 40mmx40mm

Support stereoscopy camera and IRcut control support(optional)

SDK supports C/C++,Python programming language

Bandwidth: 480MbpsUSB2.0

ColorDepth:8/10/12bitpixel

Please note that the Arducam USB Shield only support the following camera modules by Arducam!

Table 1 Supported Camera Modules

Resolution	Sensor Vendor	Camera Module	Manufacture
0.3MP	Omnivision	OV7660 / OV7670 / OV7675 / OV7725	ArduCAM
0.3MP	Aptina	MT9V111/MT9V034	ArduCAM
1.3MP	Aptina	MT9M112 / MT9M001/AR0134	ArduCAM
2MP	Omnivision	OV2640	ArduCAM
2MP	Aptina	MT9D111 / MT9D112	ArduCAM
3MP	Omnivision	OV3640	ArduCAM
3MP	Aptina	MT9T112	ArduCAM
5MP	Omnivision	OV5640 / OV5642	ArduCAM
10MP	Aptina	MT9J001	ArduCAM
14MP	Aptina	MT9F002	ArduCAM