Hello Every one!!!!! I am doing a project on arduino. I want to interface an usb camera with arduino along with sd card. I need that camera should on and automatically start taking snaps and stores in sd card. Is it possible in Arduino???? If yes then please help me with suitable arduino specification of arduino...
Is it possible in Arduino????
No!!!!
This comes up quite frequently. The short answer is no, the Arduino () just does not have enough memory nor is it fast enough to drive a camera and fill a SD card, other than toy uses (). You can use an Arduino to fire a camera that has its own SD card at selected intervals (), but it is problematical to have the Arduino process the image and store it. Something with more horsepower and memory, like a Rasberry Pi, Beaglebone Black, pcDunio, etc. would have less trouble with the image processing since they are faster and have more memory.
- Well technically, an Arduino Yun (or Tre when it becomes available) can do this, since those processors have a faster Linux host bolted onto the board, and you can do the processing on the Linux side of things. Similarly, the recently announced Intel Galileo can do this also.
** There is at least one JPEG camera you can buy and attach to an Arduino. Since it probably takes several minutes for an Arduino to process this image and store it to the SD card, it is not that useful in the real world.
*** If you have a camera that takes a wired shutter release, it is fairly simple to have an Arduino use 2 optocouplers to turn on the focus and the fire circuits to get the camera to take a picture. Note, some cameras have wired shutter releases that work for still pictures, but not for taking movies, and you would only be able to take still pictures using this method. If your camera does not support a wired shutter release, it might support an infrared shutter release, and you can use the Arduino to mimic the infrared shutter release to fire the camera. Some cameras can be fired from pcs via USB, ethernet, or wifi, and while in theory you might be able to use an Arduino to mimic the pc, in practice it would involve a lot of work to shoehorn it into the Arduino and you need to buy extra boards, so it would be better to use a small Linux type host for that. If your camera does not support either type of shutter release, you can always program a servo to push the button on the camera.
The arduino would be great for controlling two servo's or stepper motors to position a camera under the control of higher level software on a pc (or a human), but it just isn't that great at doing the actual picture taking part.
The device you need for that is not an Arduino, it is called a "camera".
I must apologize for the users above me as they are acting quite rude. Instead of screaming no at you in all caps and making sarcastic comments I intend on helping you solve your problem. What you need to do for this project is buy a Rasberry pie and you can easily attach the USB camera and program it as you want. There are also lots of people online who have created similar projects using Rasberry Pie. The Rasberry Pie is basically a cross between a linux computer and an Arduino.
Best of Luck,
Ashton
An arduino itself isn't capable of handling all data from a camera.
If you're talking about storing data on SD using a webcam + arduino only, you're out of luck.
If you're talking about a normal camera with its own SD-card, a lot may be possible though.
You could for example use a PIR- "motion"sensor, read its output and once it detects someone, have the arduino take a picture by pushing the button with a servo. You could create a time-lapse video by taking a picture every x-seconds.
The next camera may be interesting to hack, it's small, cheap and with a bit of luck you can operate the 3 switches it has using simple transistors instead of servo.
Unfortunately it won't be possible to use motiondetection using a cameras output, but besides pir-sensor, one could sense presence in many ways with an arduino. You could check interruption of a light beam for example, listen to the amount of noise in a room or check whether a door just opened by reading a switch.
The servo method would definitely be the easiest and quickest way to do what you trying to. Also the cheapest, Digital cameras can be bought for 30$ (low end) and a servo for 14$ at Radioshack, the Arduino itself is only 25$. that's all under 100$!
strongly suggest you stop cross-posting
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Threads merged.
Instead of screaming no at you in all caps and making sarcastic comments I intend on helping you solve your problem.
Are you planning to help the next 425 people too lazy to spent 30 seconds searching first, too?
If I see someone who needs assistance then yes. Im here to assist not to judge. Please make anouther thread if you would like to discuss forum etiquette further
PaulS:
Instead of screaming no at you in all caps and making sarcastic comments I intend on helping you solve your problem.
Are you planning to help the next 425 people too lazy to spent 30 seconds searching first, too?
Are you planning to keep shouting NO at them and do they become better searchers if you do ? 
Are you planning to keep shouting NO at them and do they become better searchers if you do ?
Yes, I do, and I don't care.
PaulS:
I don't care.
That's all I needed to know.
ashtonmehrle:
I must apologize for the users above me as they are acting quite rude. Instead of screaming no at you in all caps and making sarcastic comments I intend on helping you solve your problem.
The original poster has now made two posts in all caps screaming at us, and cross-posting, so bear with us a bit here.
@akashdeepmitthu: Have the courtesy to learn how to use a forum.
Thanks Ashton for suggesting me raspberry pi. Will you please guide me with the raspberry pi program as I had never used it any where.
akashdeepmitthu:
Thanks Ashton for suggesting me raspberry pi. Will you please guide me with the raspberry pi program as I had never used it any where.
Well this is the Arduino forum. The Rasberry Pi forum is over here: http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/
I recommend going to the Rasberry Pie forum, you will find people much more qualified to help you there then here. Best of luck m8.
The Arduino UNO can handle the data from a Serial JPG camera. It can detect movement and send the data at nearly 1 FPS. The key is dealing with compressed data to make it work. A simple No is wrong.
A simple No is wrong.
Really? How many people are going to be satisfied with 1 frame per second?