Artificial Retina Chip Mitsubishi's M64282FP Artificial Retina chip is more than just a CMOS imaging chip. It contains internal circuitry to perform such operations as edge enhancement, similar to the human retina. Because of this, it allows some image processing to occur in the imaging chip. Housed in a 16-pin chip, nearly all circuitry needed to capture and process an image exist. The block diagram below shows the internal layout of this chip.
All control is through logic-level signals.
The only analog signal is the output value for each pixel. The rate at which video data is clocked out of the chip is controlled by the clock signal that your processor provides to the Artificial Retina chip. The Gameboy camera consists of an eyeball-sized camera mounted on top of an insertable cartridge. The eyeball-sized camera is easily detached. The eyeball camera contains a weird-sized connector with 9 pins which might have to be replaced with something more easily available.