Hello,
Looking to get some insight on my options for a Sun sensor I’m working on building. I have chosen to use a CCD to capture the image of light coming from the sun and I am building a mask or “slit” that will be placed on top of the CCD in order to focus the light onto the CCD. My main issue is finding a fairly inexpensive ($300-$400) and easy to work with CCD/Development board combination that I can use for my sun sensor. My requirments are as follows:
Spation resolution: bigger the better but nothing crazy, I’d say anything around or greater then 300x300 pixels is fine
Speed and shutter: it will be capturing stationary or near stationary light so speed is not my concern.
Frame rate: one image will be processed at a time so anything 30/50 fr/s is plenty
Spectral responce: visible light
Well depth: I will only be using grey scale image processing and don’t need high quantity of information. 8 or 10 bits is plenty.
Here are a few options I looked at:
(this dev board looks like it is made for CCD’s however it is no longer used)
(this ccd is small but it has a chip carrier which can come in use since I can make a PCB to harness it. Would like more info on this one however)
There are many ADC development boards I see online however I am unaware if the can process a larger nxn CCD with 40-60 pinouts compared to a linear ccd that has much less pinouts such as the EPC901-CSP32-033 which has 16 pinouts.
Any help is appreciated, I am still an undergrad and have much to learn so feel free to shed some light (haha) on my project idea!