The camera kit for the Raspberry Pi has just received an update, both the IR and visible light modules will now ship with an 8MP sensor, a nice jump from the current 5MP module. Even better for a system designed specifically for low cost solutions is the news that the price will remain unchanged and the new camera will cost you the same as the previous. The Inquirer reports that one of the main reasons for the change is that the OmniVision OV5647 sensor previously used can no longer be sourced. If you use your Raspberry Pi for applications requiring a camera, you should look at your current projects to see if the jump in resolution provide by the IMX219 sensor will benefit you.
"Fortunately, we'd already struck up conversation with Sony's image sensor division, and in the nick of time we're able to announce the immediate availability of visible light and infrared cameras based on the Sony IMX219 8MP sensor at the same low price of $25.""
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Nice, and do NOT ever use any
Nice, and do NOT ever use any M$ OS on the Pi, look at the latest release of SpyDoze 10, and see the TIFKAM apps that can not be removed! It’s the browser wars all over again with M$ and windows 10. And it’s does not matter what new hardware is coming to the market, I’ll go used and windows 7/Linux in 2020 before I’ll go to new PC/Laptop hardware wedded/welded to windows 10 in the UEFI!
All you Linux OS based OEMs, system 76 and others, please try and get some AMD(Zen) APU based systems for users that want to avoid WinTel and Nvidia’s overpriced SKUs!
Vulkan will help greatly and hopefully Gaben will start making some Gaming laptops that USE Steam OS/Linux before 2020 gets here!
“What’s this, a new
“What’s this, a new peripheral for an embedded devkit? Better go full conspiracy!”