Hi, I'm wanting to use multiple Pi camera to take 360*180 panorama's.
From the research I've done on the topic it would seem that to control 6 PiCams I would need 6 Pi's. As weight and space are critical to this project I've been trying to find a way to have multiple cameras controlled by the same Pi. On the Raspberry Pi forums Gert mentions the possibility of using a Fairchild FSA642 CSI Multiplexer to have 2 cameras controlled on one CSI-2 port. He also mentions however that this would require tweaks to the GPU - which is the closed source part of this project (for understandable reasons) - I'm wondering though about the feasability of using three of these multiplexers on a daughterboard to have the pi control all 6 cameras at once. The biggest issues I see are bandwidth and timing for six syncronized cameras wanting to write at the same time. Even if I could get 2 cameras functioning on 1 pi it would be a huge step in the right direction.
Has anyone else been working on something along this line or am I simply barking up the wrong tree?
