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2 days ago the Raspberry Pi camera board became available.

The camera board is a miniature 5MP 1080p digital video camera module that plugs into an existing connector on the Raspberry Pi (both A and B models).
I saw some sample videos and immediately ordered one @ RS Online; just look at those samples videos, really great!
Total costs (incl. tax, shipping) about 30 Euro.

More info (including the samples) can be found here:
http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/tag/camera-board

looks very, very nice!
will order one camera too!
thanks for the tip

Also got it working. Not a really good camera but better than the average webcam. In Holland they can be ordered at Farnell.Delivery in a day.

http://nl.farnell.com/jsp/search/produc ... ku=2302279

Bastiaan

Got mine yesterday. First impression is good, installation is easy. Streaming is easy to do as well.
Below is a sample of the image it produces, captured with VLC Player on my PC, image size 960 x 540 (=HD/2).

Looks nice but for now i don`t have a real purpose for a camera module on the PI. What are you going to do with it ?

p.s. Nice resistor storage

Don't know yet what I'm going to do with it, I bought it primarily for fun, just to see what it can do and what not.
Right now I'm doing some experiments with streaming, timelapse video etcetera.
Maybe I'll use one @ the front door so I can see who's there, don't really know yet...

Robert,
What OS are you running on it?

answering for Robert
The standard Raspbian, see http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads

Here's some more information on what to do next, after downloading & using Raspbian "Wheezy":
http://blog.hekkers.net/2013/05/26/the- ... era-board/

This is a great project for the rasp with a camera
@Digit: we should do that sometime
http://www.daveakerman.com/?p=1154

OK, just pick a date and I'll be there

More down to earth but also very nice it this Raspberry Pi mini arcade project.
http://spritesmods.com/?art=rpi_arcade

It seems like every minute a new article about the camera board is popping up somewhere

I made a time-lapse video last few days.
Not really spectacular, but hey, I don't control the weather...still some bugs in weather driver 0.9
http://blog.hekkers.net/2013/06/01/time ... pberry-pi/