Felt compelled to make a topic about this because I haven't seen much, if any information about this even with searching.
I have a Top Shot Elite in my hands right now that I'm planning to mod for my personal system for testing
which you may have heard of before. While I don't currently have a DFRobot camera that I've used in my prior three builds, I
do have a spare semi-working Wiimote with a working camera, that I'd figured I'd gut the sensor and adapt into a DIY camera.
Now, getting the parts isn't an issue, neither is the soldering--I'd done those plenty of times now. However, I could not find many... actually,
any publicly available resources for how to actually do this.
The most that I can find about converting a Wiicam is this general schematic from what I think is an old revision of the GUN4IR PDF manual:
Now, my personal dilemma is,
I'm not using GUN4IR (obviously), and the board I'm using is a Raspberry Pi Pico - a microcontroller which has a
native 3.3V output. Aside from the quartz crystal (and decoupling cap), much of the schematic seems to be focused on pulling down the sole 5V output from this Arduino board to the camera.
So if that's the case, does that mean I can skip both the voltage conversion and the resistors and just connect everything from the camera directly to the Pico? Or if not, what other changes would be needed to facilitate this? Has anyone else tried
something like this themselves? I'd love to hear the community's thoughts, since I'm definitely no electrical engineer.