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Board to Board cable exender for RaspberryPi Camera V2

thanasispap

I want to make two raspberrypi cameras V2 come as close as they could for an optics setup for my experiments. I notice that the camera connector cable is attached on camera (cannot disconnect) but its second tail is attachable to the camera's board (easily disconnectable).

I want to extend the camera from the camera board for about 2.5cm.

Is there any cable extender or any other solution on the market?

 

I 've already found the pin type but unfortunately I cannot find the cable.

 

https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=43&t=67465

 

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  • Hi Thanasis,

     

    I've not seen such an adapter cable, it would have very limited use. The URL you refer to already points to an alternative camera which uses a more narrow flat flex connector, it may be easier to just buy that. But I guess you've ruled that out for a reason although you didn't specify the reason.

    You could try to design your own flat flex adapter cable with the correct connectors, but it will easily cost several hundred $$ for material/prototyping, and tool cost if you don't already have those, and your design time to develop such a thing. If you're at a university maybe you can get someone to develop it for you if this is an option.

    Or (I'm no expert) is there no optical way to do this?

  • in reply to shabaz

    Shabaz thanks for your answer.

    The link I post was for V1 camera. The new connector (V2 picamera) has 30 pin configuration.  The thing is that I want the sensors close in order to minimize my system setup (that uses two cameras). There is optical way to bypass this cable need but its a bulky, unwanted solution.

    I can also design a new connector board and cable (or use two ffc's same as cameras) but this solution can cost a lot (also the size of the custom solution seems bulky). My main interest is if there is a market solution for this with or without little customization.

  • in reply to thanasispap

    I think the market is small for this unfortunately and so any adapter may cost a lot due to low volume of sales even if it was created. It might explain why Adafruit doesn't have a v2 version. There is also the small covert camera market (e.g. Axis P12) but it wouldn't be suitable for scientific work.

     

    I think your only option if you want v2 is to build your own adapter cable or a single PCB with connectors for both cameras to be mounted close-by. It's not a lot of work but requires time and of course ordering the bits/pcb/assembly.

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  • in reply to thanasispap

    I think the market is small for this unfortunately and so any adapter may cost a lot due to low volume of sales even if it was created. It might explain why Adafruit doesn't have a v2 version. There is also the small covert camera market (e.g. Axis P12) but it wouldn't be suitable for scientific work.

     

    I think your only option if you want v2 is to build your own adapter cable or a single PCB with connectors for both cameras to be mounted close-by. It's not a lot of work but requires time and of course ordering the bits/pcb/assembly.

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