Laptop Webcam to USB Webcam? for Raspberry Pi

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I have just dissembled my HP pavilion Dv7 because the motherboard gave up, and now i am looking to salvage part of it to use for my raspberry pi. I have its Webcam and was wondering if i could rewire it to work with a USB. The camera is a 21QCMMA00M0 (it has 6 wires Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue and a black), if anyone could tell me how to rewire it to use with a USB that would be very helpful. {I just attached a few image of the wires one is the usb i am going to use and the other is the wires of the camera.} | | | V V V 
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knight_rider1977 · Answer

I'm doing something similar but mine is a HP pavilion Dv9000 series. MB went out also. My camera CMN5748 (AT005748000) and has 4 wires on it. The microphones were a seperate component on this model. If they are integrated to the same board then you would have 6 wires coming out of it. From what I have been able to track down the pinout of the 4 wire one is: Red: +5 : Pin 3 : USB +5V Pin 1 (Red) White: Ground : Pin 1 : USB GND Pin 4 (Black) Black: D- : Pin 5 : USB Pin 2 (White) Blue D+ : Pin 4 : USB Pin 3 (Green) For the 6 wire one this is what I found: Black: Common GND for Camera and Mic : USB GND Pin 4 (Black) Green: +5V : Pin 1 : USB +5V Pin 1 (Red) Yellow: D+ : Pin 5 : USB Pin 3 (Green) Orange: D- : Pin 4 : USB Pin 2 (White) Red: Mic L : Pin 3 : (Should be able to solder up to a standard 3.5mm stereo jack then use a Male to Male 3.5mm stereo jack to put into the Mic or line in of the sound card. Brown(could be blue??) Mic R : Pin 2 Can't say for sure the above is 100% accurate but it is what I have been able to find on HP's support fourms. I plan on hacking up an extra USB cable at work tomorrow waiting for a computer to image and will wire up the camera and see what happens and let you know. Sounds like a good project to collaborate on to resolve. From what I have been able to find some of the laptop cameras can work as a USB device some not.

knight_rider1977 · Answer

I'm finding its not just some kind of standard USB camera. I cut all the wires and soldered them to a USB plug. The system see a device but does not know what it is. I've been searching for the drivers but so far not 100% luck. There are some HP software packages I downloaded but since the machine I'm testing on is a Lenovo and not an HP the software is not running as it is specific to HP. I may try the camera on my working HP laptop via the USB port and see what that yields. Havn't given up yet but its not looking that promising thus far at least for my hp dv9000 camera.