Welcome to the firmware onboarding for Waterloo Reality Labs!
At Reality Labs, our default platform is the Raspberry Pi series of microcontrollers. We’re also going to do low-level programming on other Raspberry Pis, but that's a much more complicated story…
For this onboarding, we’re going to play around with a camera module based on the RP2040, which is one of the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s popular microcontrollers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RP2040
https://datasheets.raspberrypi.com/rp2040/rp2040-datasheet.pdf
Hopefully, more knowledge about camera controls will help you understand one of the most important things in VR: inside-out positional tracking via sensor fusion (camera + IMU data).
Join the Waterloo Reality Labs Discord server: https://discord.gg/6yACASnqMj
Post your progress and GitHub repo (later in the document) in the onboarding channel here: https://discord.com/channels/1181690091853328455/1423704208959344820
The RP2040 camera module, aka PICO-Cam-A, is a tiny devkit designed by Waveshare.
The package includes the following: