Looking For Camera Recommendations

Projects Networking, Protocols, and Devices
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Hello, All!

I'm doing a project where I want to capture a picture of my house plants every day, and send it to myself.

My setup is a development kit (haven't decided yet if Arduino, SAMD or something else. Will decide according to camera), with a WIFI module and a camera.

The setup is located on the soil near the plant. It will be encased in water resistant casing, but the lense will be exposed

I have no experience with cameras, so I'd appreciate you suggestions for a camera that answers the following requirements:

  1. It should be able to capture an image of a 1500 mm X 1500 mm at a distance of 300 mm (I suppose wide lense, short focal length)

  2. It should be VGA (640 X 480 pixels)

  3. The lense should be water resistant

  4. Preferably, it should cost between 2-4 USD per unit in bulk purchase

  5. It doesn't have to take video. Still images are enough

Can you please advise / recommend me a camera that answers these requirements?

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Can you please advise / recommend me a camera that answers these requirements?

Forget it. There are no cameras that cheap that can take that resolution picture.

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do not forget it. think outside the box

$5 yard sale digital camera, use a mini servo to tip the trigger once a day, et voila - daily pictures

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PaulS:
Forget it. There are no cameras that cheap that can take that resolution picture.

This is just a guide line, I'm willing to go several dollars more :slight_smile:

Will be difficult Getting several thousands at a yard sale :smiley:

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Maybe have a look at this. You can get OV7670 camera cheap on ebay but you also need Wi-Fi.
Another option might be something like this as it can also do wifi.
I have not looked at any code for it to see if you can grab still images but I would be surprised if you cannot.