[SOLVED] how to extend a camera of my phone to use it in my college projects ?

[chernobyl choky]

Hi all ♥
I need to make a small robot and cheap with high quality camera as well as android system
but i can't just use the phone because of it's wight
i have 4 old phones but most of their cameras are connected by this type of pins in the pic
and it's so hard to weld wires to these pins to extend the cam
we thought about using pc webcam and connect it by OTG but it's only 1 Mpexel and anything above that is so expensive

 

[Sagar_20]

You can try some spy camera.

They are cheap and offer decent picture quality, though I don't know what kind of pins they use.

 

[chernobyl choky]

unfortunately it's restricted in our country so i can't even buy it online
i tried to use pc webcam and connect it by OTG but it didn't work i think because it's so old
when i searched i found something about UVC camera i think i need this type to work properly

 

[Alabalcho]

You can get cameras with various quality designed to work with Raspberry / Arduino devices, with well-defined pinouts and supporting libraries.

And you don't need OTG cable if your robot' controller has "standard" USB-A interface. And if not, then you choose wrong controller for robot - image processing needs CPU and RAM to do it.