{"id":1415,"date":"2014-11-12T02:41:44","date_gmt":"2014-11-12T02:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/?p=1415"},"modified":"2014-11-19T20:10:28","modified_gmt":"2014-11-19T20:10:28","slug":"canon-ixy-60-powershot-sd450","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/canon-ixy-60-powershot-sd450\/","title":{"rendered":"Canon Ixy 60 (Powershot SD450)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’ve been playing with some Canon Ixy 60s which I picked up for 5USD in the junk bins of Akihabara. The camera uses a 5MP CCD sensor. I’m interested in understanding the protocol used to communicate with this sensor better. This post documents my notes so far.<\/p>\n

I could just about get the thing to power up while disassembled by jaming the battery door sensor closed and pressing the power button:<\/p>\n

\"ixy_jam\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I then taped everything down, so I could probe around. It’s still annoying that it powers off every 30s or so:<\/p>\n

\"ixy_60_tape1\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I assigned pin numbers to the CCD pins as follows:
\n\"ixy_60_ccd\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I then removed the CCD from the FPCB, hopefully I didn’t damage the FPCB in the process. Interestingly the camera still powers up. If you short the pins in the bottom left corner you even get something on the screen.<\/p>\n

\"ixy_ccd_fpcb\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Notes<\/h2>\n

I saved scope traces for all the pins below (clearly a bunch are ground, but hey).<\/p>\n

Pin1: \"1\"<\/a>
\nPin2: \"1\"<\/a>
\nPin3: \"1\"<\/a>
\nPin4: \"1\"<\/a>
\nPin5: \"1\"<\/a>
\nPin6: \"1\"<\/a>
\nPin7: \"1\"<\/a>
\nPin8: \"1\"<\/a>
\nPin9: \"1\"<\/a>
\nPin10: \"1\"<\/a>
\nPin11: \"1\"<\/a>
\nPin12: \"1\"<\/a>
\nPin13: \"1\"<\/a>
\nPin14: \"1\"<\/a>
\nPin15: \"1\"<\/a>
\nPin16: \"1\"<\/a>
\nPin17: \"1\"<\/a>
\nPin18: \"1\"<\/a>
\nPin19: \"1\"<\/a>
\nPin20: \"1\"<\/a>
\nPin21: \"1\"<\/a>
\nPin22: \"1\"<\/a>
\nPin23: \"1\"<\/a>
\nPin24: \"1\"<\/a>
\nPin25: \"1\"<\/a>
\nPin26: \"1\"<\/a>
\nPin27: \"1\"<\/a>
\nPin28: \"1\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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