Re:Raspberry Pi Zero: the $5 computer
by intrasight on Thursday November 26, 2015 @12:11PM
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Yeah, I had hoped for that as well. But connectors cost money. Could the camera module be attached via the header?
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Re:Raspberry Pi Zero: the $5 computer
by duskwuff on Thursday November 26, 2015 @03:59PM
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> Could the camera module be attached via the header?
No. The Raspberry Pi GPIO header doesn't include all pins, and in particular it doesn't include pins that were used for other peripherals, such as the camera and display interfaces.
Interestingly you can get out DPI display signal from GPIO pins. Adafruit is using this technique with their Kippah display, giving you fully accelerated display signal (unlike those crappy low-fps-low-res framebuffer driven GPIO displays).
Correct. My understanding is that trick was made possible by design -- one of their engineers specifically chose pins to bring out to the GPIO header to facilitate it.
I've seen some variants on the "Kippah" to directly drive VGA.
I asked this on RPi forums and got clarification from their engineer. It's not possible to connect CSI camera to Zero via GPIO. Required CPU pads are not connected.