Using CCD sensor for digital camera

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You might want to do searches of the newsgroups and websites that are devoted to amateur telescope making. They've done a lot of work, in that area.

Good luck.

Regards,

Tom Gootee

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Seriously though, thee is a lot more work in some parts of this than you may think. The casual mention of possibly trying to write to a USB stick, is a classic example. To do this, you have to implement a USB 'master' interface, and would be talking about several _weeks_ work for a development lab, to just do this alone. Pull down the application notes from Sony, on some of their CCD sensors. These have some of the best notes, with complete circuits (which is why they are used in things like the 'cookbook' CCD camera). Concentrate on the camera alone, with a frame buffer, and then consider writing this data to something like an SD/MMC memory module, which is a _lot_ easier to do.

Best Wishes