In more technical terms, the AI Camera is based on a Sony image sensor (the IMX500) paired with a RP2040, Raspberry Pi’s own microcontroller chip with on-chip SRAM.

It's been possible to make Pi-based cameras before, but the Pi Camera Module V2 is an 8MP affair with a fixed focus lens and the High-Quality Camera Module always seemed a bit too involved.

Raspberry Pi, the company that sells tiny, cheap, single-board computers, is releasing an add-on that is going to open up several use cases — and yes, because it's 2024, there's an AI angle. Called ...

For my build, I used the $50 HQ Camera Mod, a Raspberry Pi 4 computer, a USB-C portable 10,000mAh charger, a 3.5-inch touchscreen, jumper wires, a mini push button switch, the body of a Ninoka NK ...

The Arducam Miniature Camera Module is also readily compatible with Raspberry Pi boards 2, 3, and 4 and their camera libraries. However, it has no NoIR versions, so it's best used in brightly lit ...

This Isn’t Just Any Camera, It’s A Hackaday Camera! Minimalism is the new cool, right? Along with the V3 non-wide-angle camera module then, I bought a Pimoroni Display HAT Mini, and a Pi Zero W.

That's about double the sensor area of the Camera Module V2. As the Raspberry Pi foundation puts it in the blog post, "There are limitations to mobile phone-type fixed-focus modules.