Arducam Pivariety 21MP IMX230 Color Camera Module

Arducam Pivariety is a Raspberry Pi camera solution to take the advantage of using its hardware ISP functions. Using Arducam Pivariety camera modules, users can get better performance and a wider variety of camera, lens options. For a long time, Raspberry Pi users are limited to use the closed-source official supported camera driver and camera modules (V1/V2/HQ). Now Arducam made it possible to provide well-tuned ISP for Pivariety camera modules with Auto Exposure, Auto White Balance, Lens Shading Correction, etc.

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1. To use this camera, it is necessary to do hardware and software setup. To do the hardware setup, please follow the instructions given in the link .
2. After the hardware setup it is time to do software setup. To do that , first you need to install the kernel driver for this pivariety camera. Hence, follow the instructions given in the link .
3. Once you download the kernel driver, it is time to access and program the pivariety camera using command line. To do that, you need to follow this link . If you want to install the libcamera-dev and libcamera-app by yourself, then go to the You can also be following the steps to install the driver by yourself in the same link.

Applications:

1. UAV/Drones/FPV camera
2. Machine Vision
3. Robotics
4. IoT
5. Face Recognition
6. Defect Detection

Note: Raspberry pi shown in the image is not included with the product you have to buy it separately

Features:

1. 21MP Sony IMX230 Exmor RS color sensor, up to 53444012@9fps.
2. Auto Exposure Control, Auto White Balance.
3. Programmable focus control.
4. Gstreamer support.
5. Upcoming V4L2 support.
6. Compatible w/ all libcamera-based apps maintained by the RPi foundation.

Package Includes:

1 x Arducam Pivariety 21MP IMX230 Color Camera Module