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DS Misc > DIY Camera for NDS

#92267 - dualscreenman - Wed Jul 12, 2006 12:59 pm

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We're all aware that a digital camera/webcam for the Sony PSP is right around the corner, but how many of you knew that you could also snap photos with your Nintendo DS? Don't feel bad; we didn't know it was possible either until we spotted modder Kako's handiwork on YouTube -- apparently he's taken a Treva CMOS chipset, done a bit of rewiring, and written software that allows the unit to output images directly to his DS Lite. We can't vouch for the picture quality, and the frame rates are positively sluggish, but at least this mod gives Nintendo fanboys one less missing feature to defend when the PSP crowd goes into one of those regular, tiresome diatribes listing the many reasons why their product totally "pwns" the little dual screen console -- in fact, you'll probably catch a few examples of said diatribes right here in the comments section of this very post.


Pretty neat, huh?
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#92269 - jester - Wed Jul 12, 2006 1:15 pm

i thought this was fake?? is their a way of creating a small camera for the ds that can be massed produce like making the camera from the GBA or NDS slots?
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#92270 - dualscreenman - Wed Jul 12, 2006 1:25 pm

Why wouldn't it be possible?
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#92281 - jester - Wed Jul 12, 2006 2:03 pm

is the ds serial component finished if it is i wouldnt mind making a nds camera
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#92300 - Kayouu - Wed Jul 12, 2006 5:59 pm

his site: http://translate.google.com/translate?sourceid=navclient-menuext&hl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ekako%2Ecom%2F
translated thanks to google :>
origanal page: http://www.kako.com/neta/2006-011/2006-011.html

#92302 - quadomatic - Wed Jul 12, 2006 6:19 pm

it looks like that thing may be using the serial interface that you can make using ur passme. If thats the case, i think natrium42 deserves a little thank you for writing the how-to

#92313 - HyperHacker - Wed Jul 12, 2006 7:26 pm

I was thinking of a similar project; try to hack my crappy digicam and connect the USB cable to the DS somehow. A camera designed especially for the DS seems much cooler, but I find most things like this have really low resolution.
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#95660 - spinal_cord - Sun Jul 30, 2006 7:04 pm

I also would like to have a camra for the DS, a commercial one would be cool, now that no-pass is about I assume a 3rd party developer would easily be able to make a camera specifically for the DS.
Using 'R' shoulder buttone to take the photo, saving to a cf card or flash device(using usb cable to cennect to pc)
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#96092 - jandujar - Tue Aug 01, 2006 10:21 am

I will try to use this for my DSRobot.
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#96115 - Darkflame - Tue Aug 01, 2006 12:50 pm

I cant believe Nintendo havnt yet released one :-/

A *gba/micro* camera that can be access by DS software (mariopaint?) would make so much sense imo.
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#96123 - jester - Tue Aug 01, 2006 2:30 pm

is DSRobot in mass production yet?

Also i found this link about the DIY Camera DS:

http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kako.com%2Fneta%2F2006-011%2F2006-011.html&langpair=ja%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&prev=%2Flanguage_tools