“Spectacularly difficult to get going on the Pi Pico, I tried in Windows and Linux, in Python, Circuit Python, VS code C, C++ in the Arduino IDE, I got it working briefly with Circuit Python, but it gave corrupted images (broken jpegs) at anything beyond 320x200 ... oddly, video was OK. Developers appear to have abandoned this product in favour of newer (and more expensive models) ..and don't reply to issues oponed in the repo. I am now trying to write my own driver for it in TinyGo. Terrible naming, many many legacy versions of the product line and it's libraries make things super confusing. Lost a week of my life to this piece of junk ... spring more money for a better one would be my advice. I would send it back for a refund, but I am a victim of the sunk cost fallacy, and I refuse to give in. (My gut feeling is the hardware is probably perfectly capable but the drivers and examples are a complete mess)”
“Works as expected. Documentation could be in a single place instead of a bunch of links, but everything you need is there! I've even modified the drivers for the Pico to display the image on a LCD display in a few hours. Neat little thing.”
“This is a great camera module. To be able to take images and retrieve them, even on a basic 8 bit micro, is really useful. Of course, used with a Raspberry product, they are super-easy to use, but with a bit of effort, you can use this module with pretty much any microcontroller or PIC. Here is an image of my camera attached to a "human" detector. (Three Leds represent 40% human, 70% Human, 90% Human). Works pretty well too !”
