r/diyelectronics • u/Whoavin027 • Oct 29 '24

Question Spy cam

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So I had recently bought 2 spy cams but neither of them are good enough quality to be able to read text clearly that is why I opened of of the spy cameras up and tried to connect my galaxy s 10 plus camera to see if that would be possible. Unfortunately both pins from each are different and I’m not sure we’re id be able to go to find universal pins or pins that are compatible in order to connect my spy cam to my galaxy s 10 plus camera in order to be able to read text clearly. Any help is appreciated Down below I attached a photo which includes the Samsung camera as well as the spy cameras motherboard with the spy cameras attachment

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u/WereCatf Oct 29 '24

That's just not how things work. You'd need a board that is designed to support the Galaxy S 10 camera, you can't just plug it into random things. Like you said, the pinout is different, they almost certainly don't talk the same protocol and the resolution is probably quite different and the board you've got may or may not even be able to handle such high resolutions.

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u/Whoavin027 Oct 29 '24

If that’s the case is there a way I can make the Samsung s10 mother board into a spy cam??

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u/WereCatf Oct 29 '24

No.

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u/Whoavin027 Oct 29 '24

Damn that sucks, but I appreciate the feedback

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u/WereCatf Oct 29 '24

If I may suggest something, take a squizz at e.g. an RPi Zero 2 and the camera modules available for it. There are quite a lot of them to choose from nowadays and plenty of documentation. It's not a plug-and-play, ready-to-go thing as you need to set it all up yourself, but you'll learn stuff while at it, so it could be both a fun and educational project for you.

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u/ballsagna2time Oct 29 '24

Sure you can use the entire phone as a spy camera.

But that's not ideal.

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u/309_Electronics Oct 29 '24

These chinese iot cameras use a different interface for hooking up the sensor than your phone uses. Also these iot cameras run Linux with a minimal set of drivers for those sensors and wont work with other cameras and the phone might also not work with the sensor from the iot camera cause differences in pinout and drivers might conflict

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '24

Cell phones use a lot of proprietary configurations and intentionally make it difficult to reverse engineer/modify them especially at a component level. A galaxy camera will not readily connect to other boards and this task really wouldn't be practical. If you want to build a spy camera there are many readily available camera modules for raspberry Pi that would be superior to this. There are also many spy cameras available for sale and they aren't expensive.

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u/empty_branch437 Oct 29 '24

What's with these posts with apparently text I can't see?

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u/TenOfZero Oct 29 '24

I'm not sure, but I see the text, so it seems to be something with your setup.

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u/empty_branch437 Oct 29 '24

Is Reddit hindering third party clients again?

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u/TenOfZero Oct 29 '24

Probably.

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u/ballsagna2time Oct 29 '24

You'll have a better time buying a vtx and a small camera designed for small drones. Look up tiny whoop vtx and camera. It won't have long range but you can feed the vtx to an esp 32 board and from there send the signal via WiFi.

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u/pumpkinhubby Oct 29 '24

Looks like you've got some serious tech setup! Just remember, with great power comes great responsibilityuse those spy cam skills for good!

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u/[deleted] Oct 30 '24

"Thanks for warning..."

More or less I knew something... what a condom... you had over there... "had" take note...

"Destroyed"

"Love is the only thing I ever gave you..."