Version 4 and MooCam

Published on 2022-12-18 in Camera Shield for S2 Mini.

Since I was ordering PCBs anyways, I went ahead and added the version 4 of the shield, with the footprint fot the oscillator added, to the order:

Nothing really exciting there. I also ordered the oscillators, and they should arrive shortly, so we will see how well this works.

The pull request for making the xclk pin optional got merged to CircuitPython, so that should work once version 8.0 is released.

I also had a stab at a similar shield for the Raspberry Pi Pico and Pico W. It’s an excellent moment for it, since the Raspberry Pi Foundation loves surveillance so much – they should be more than happy that their corrupted government is getting more tools to make sure nobody harbors Unapproved Opinions.

Since there was room, and since extra storage might be useful with a camera, I also added a microSD card socket in there, and a button for the shutter on the front side, together with a police star.

We will see how all that works, but unless I made some horrible mistakes, it should work.