OVM6948 Miniature Camera Module [pdf]

Re:OVM6948 Miniature Camera Module [pdf] by isoprophlex on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @11:07AM (#45593772)

Look its pretty cool that there's imaging sensors this small but... this is just a spec sheet? People who upvote this please add additional context or interesting other stuff because as it stands there's now a two page pdf on the frontend basically saying "you can buy very small cameras for disposable useage". Not too intellectually stimulating a submission in my opinion...

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Re:OVM6948 Miniature Camera Module [pdf] by SequoiaHope on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @12:10PM (#45594725)

Well I work in robotics and this is making me wonder about integrating very small cameras in to parts of our system that could benefit from that. Honestly most datasheets are interesting to me because I design electronics.

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Re:OVM6948 Miniature Camera Module [pdf] by jxnsncjbcb on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @11:11AM (#45593825)

How is a specsheet any less interesting than a random GitHub readme?

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Re:OVM6948 Miniature Camera Module [pdf] by isoprophlex on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @12:06PM (#45594671)

Well, a gh repo goes beyond what fits in one or two sentences. I can clone, run, inspect and usually use to learn something from those.

Now if this was a blogpost by someone making, say, disposable video-enabled teledildonics, we'd go beyond "this exists"...

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Re:OVM6948 Miniature Camera Module [pdf] by paulwetzel on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @04:45PM (#45598198)

For the most part, when working with hardware, I find this to be quite typical. A spec sheet, if one is lucky maybe an application note tackling a tangentially similar problem and thats usually it. Unfortunately open source hardware tends to be much less of a thing than software.

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Re:OVM6948 Miniature Camera Module [pdf] by makapuf on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @12:32PM (#45595055)

I think the interesting figure could be that its a cube of ~1mm but I agree it's lacking context

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Re:OVM6948 Miniature Camera Module [pdf] by dtgriscom on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @09:13PM (#45600406)

Less than half a cubic millimeter. Power consumption of 25mW. 200x200 resolution. Unit price $63. Only four pins (power, ground, clock in, data out).

That's pretty radical.

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Re:OVM6948 Miniature Camera Module [pdf] by makapuf on Thursday October 16, 2025 @04:32PM (#45610339)

Expensive per volume !

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Re:OVM6948 Miniature Camera Module [pdf] by gregsadetsky on Thursday October 16, 2025 @06:03AM (#45603501)

My apologies! I found a “it’s incredible that this exists” tweet/x post with a picture of this sensor, and didn’t find anything more than the spec sheet.

To me, the sheer existence of it is incredible. I didn’t realize… such a small sensor was possible?

But yes, I’d also love a writeup/blog/video about it. Hopefully someone can share something on it.

Cheers

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