Disposable digital camera
CVS sells a pure digital camera which can be hacked to make it reusable. On a whim I saw a disposable digital camera at CVS and bought one. Turns out, I’ve got one of the ones that isn’t currently hacked. Here I plan to catalog the information that I gather about getting this to work.
Here is a specific thread about this camera at camerahacking.com
Disection
Apologies as I’d already taken the camera apart and tried to solder in a connector.
This is how you know you’re screwed (for now). Click for large and the spot where it says “Model 510″.
This appears to be a samsung NAND flash chip (datasheet).
The double sided tape which sticks the peizo to the CPU removed a good amount of the paint.
That actually reads:
PD1-101-RD2100
EC227550B-1L
QH6937.1
0630
Taiwan
I’m unable to find a datasheet for this chip. Although a quick google search turns out a couple distributors.
Info Boot
Pressing the power button while depressing the shutter button and the display button yields:
INFO
FIRMWARE 0253
ID HA3070206386
REALM ID 20
Pinout of the connector
Found here
1: +3.268v
2: +3.268v
3: +3.268v
4: +3.242v
5: +3.268v
6: +5v
7: gnd
8: nc
9: nc
10: gnd
Processing
A little more digging on camerhacking.com has revealed this flickr account.