Plug and play cable extension kit for Raspberry Pi

This kit frees up designers from being restricted to the short 15 to 20cm distance provided by the Flat Flexible Cable (FFC) shipped with the Raspberry Pi Camera Modules. The Kit allows the Raspberry Pi camera to work up to 20 meters away from the SBC with the exact same performance as if connected close to the SBC through the FFC.

This new kit is based on THine’s V-by-One HS Serialiser-Deserialiser technology. V-by-One HS was developed by THine to support up to 4 Gbps per lane and is robust enough to extend the transmission of 1080p60 2Mpixel uncompressed video for greater than 15 meters with specified cables.

Key advantages:

• Plug and Play – The Kit detects which RPi camera is connected and automatically sets the register settings of the THine serialiser and de-serialiser ICs to transport the video data over the increased distance to the SBC.
• The Kit provides every component needed to increase the distance between the RPi camera and the SBC including a two meter LAN cable and all fastening hardware.
• Up to 20m extension is possible due to the Kit’s support of many long LAN cables.
• Old and new Raspberry Pi cameras are supported by the Kit. This includes the V1.3, V2, and the newer High Quality (HQ) cameras.

“This kit solves a key problem for Raspberry Pi users by adding the design flexibility to place the camera far from the computer board with a plug and play, low cost, and simple to install solution,” said Tak Iizuka, Chief Solution Architect of THine Solutions. “As an example, we used the Kit on a telescope application where we placed the telescope and camera outside on a cold winter day in Chicago and placed the computer and display in a nice warm room to view pictures of the moon!”