Picaxe w Camera Module?

Axel87

Senior Member
Looking for some advice.
Would the picaxe be able to process VGA video and send to a display?
Looking at this camera module-
http://www.ebay.com/itm/260967834560
Or would I need a serperate proccesor? Still in a basic level programming skill yet, so hopefully this wont be too difficult.

On another project, would this be compatible as well? Difficulty level??
http://www.ebay.com/itm/251108374916

Any information you can provide with using these would be great!
Thanks again!
 

Axel87

Senior Member
Thanks beb101,
Good advice.
How does this one look? Would HC-07 be better or worse for compatibility?
What I gathered from the other forum is one pretty much needs a seperate graphics unit to do the processing. The Picaxe does not have enough memory.
This correct?
Thanks again!
 

westaust55

Moderator
Yes the PICAXE does not have sufficient memory for video applications of the nature you are considering.
If you think of 256 colours that needs 1 bytes per pixel.
Now with say a 640 x 480 s teen that is 307200 bytes for one screen.
A PICAXE chip has 256 bytes of EEPROM and the same sort of magnitude for normal RAM and up to 1024 bytes of scratchpad RAM space.

PICAXE is easy to use because it uses BASIC language and happens to be an interpreted version which incurs a speed overhead.
I have seen folks posting their limited success on the Internet when using a native PIC chip to generate a simple static VGA display wher the native PIC programmed in assembler is many times faster.
DSPICs are designed for digital signal processing but are outside the realms if this PICAXE forum.

Did you look at the link the eclectic gave back at post 2 wrt VGA with a PICAXE chip?
 
Last edited:
Top