TTL color camera questions

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Hello,

I have a few questions on the Color Serial JPEG Camera Module -TTL (Product code : RB-Lin-24). First, the pins are labeled 2 for power and the other two RXD and TXD. Can I connect those last pins to 0 and 1 on the arduino directly or should something be put in between? It says on the description that it outputs JPEG through a UART but I’m not sure if it means there is already one there and all I have to do is plug’n’play. My second question is if the camera is color and uses RGB and with a 160x120 resolution would give a 57600 byte image size. Is it possible to connect two eeprom modules (Product code : RB-Dfr-88) to store the image size? I have other questions but I’d like to know these before I decide to buy one.

Thank you

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That makes it easy. If I connect the camera to pins 0 and 1 is it possible to also connect an xbee module to those pins considering that they most likely use different commands to control them? Also, does it have to be pins 0 and 1 or can the arduino make any pin “serial” as the BS2 does?

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Ok thanks. I saw that library and never bothered to check it out, but I guess I will now.

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The Camera RX and TX ports can be directly connected to the Arduino 0 and 1 pins. UART refers simply to the communication protocol (i.e. serial)

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You cannot connect the XBee and the camera on the same pins. If you want to make another serial port on other pins, you may use the SoftSerial library.