Was gifted a cheap RC drone with built in camera recently and as an adult, I’ve have more fun with it than I care to admit.

My one gripe is that the built in camera has a narrow FOV fixed lens and it is impossible to fly it from the camera view.

Given the broad availability of these cheap cameras, I was hoping to find the identical sensor and FPC arrangement but with a fisheye lens.

The sensor is 8x8mm square and roughly 4.2mm thick. It has a 40mm FPC cable and importantly a 20 pin connector on the end. I believe it is a 0.3MP VGA camera.

I’ve searched for a good long while and mostly find 24 pin OVxxxx cameras for the ESP32 or 15 pin IMX219 camera for the RPi.

This is connected to a BK7231U WiFi SOC.

Im hoping someone might be able to point me in the right direction for identifying this camera.

The only markings are “T-3” and “01 20” which are PIN number identifications.






Thanks in advance!

 

You might do much better getting a lens to put in front of the camera to increase the field of view.be That should be possible, and maybe a change-over mechanism could be created.

 

You might do much better getting a lens to put in front of the camera to increase the field of view.be That should be possible, and maybe a change-over mechanism could be created.

Certainly an option. It doesn’t have the mount for some of the common M12 modular lenses so attaching something reliably might be tricky. Not a bad option if I strike out though

 

Adding a lens would avoid having to struggle with camera connections, and since it is not likely that there is a standard arrangement that could be quite a struggle indeed. one additional option could be a curved mirror to create a wider field of view.

 

No clue if it will match, but I ordered a fisheye version of the OV2640, a similar camera. It has a fixed, but thread on lens. Hoping both of the 8mm body camera have the same lens attachment thread

 

The big question will be "do they have the same connection tail?" Of course if the lenses interchange that will not be an issue.