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Petit Studio

4,033 orders since Apr 25, 2014

Ota, Gunma, Japan

Ships from Japan.

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I hope you will enjoy my designs made to help your electronic development.

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Product: (4.73)

Documentation: (4.04)

Shipping: (4.54)

Communication: (4.37)

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Ryan | May 3, 2016

These things are great!

For Pi Camera HDMI Cable Extension

These things worked great to replace the long ribbon cable on my OctoPrint 3D Printer Server. With the constantly moving build plate, the HDMI cables allow much cleaner movement. These are great, I will be ordering again for other projects. Plus shipping from France to US was quite fast.

Chris | April 27, 2016

Cable extenders worked perfect

For Pi Camera HDMI Cable Extension

Worked first go with a 3 metre HDMI cable, I have 3rd party cameras so I had to run the flat cable a different way, the instructions gave me enough information to connect them correctly. Great product, look forward to buying more Petit Studio creations.

Stefan | April 18, 2016

Awesome!

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I've tested it with a 5 meter long HDMI cable and it works perfectly - no problem at all. It's an awesome product!

Thinh | April 4, 2016

HDMI Cable Extension received but not yet work

For Pi Camera HDMI Cable Extension

I received the product 2 weeks after it's shipped (to Vietnam). Unfortunately, I haven't had good HDMI cables (I got 1 from my TV, and bought a new Unitek but none work). The error message is
mmal: mmal_vc_component_enable: failed to enable component: ENOSPC
mmal: camera component couldn't be enabled
mmal: main: Failed to create camera component
mmal: Failed to run camera app. Please check for firmware updates

I try back with original way the camera is plugged in and it works fine.

Also, I found that the cable is a bit loose when plug in the board (it keeps going out and I have to use hand to hold it).

I haven't had chance to try back (probably a few days later) but I guess it's the HDMI cable (correct me if I'm wrong).

In the meantime, I'll look for longer FFC (Flat Flexible Cable) to extend the length of the default camera cable

One suggestion is to have the option of working HDMI cable in the package so that we can work right away

Yuri | April 4, 2016

Works properly

For Pi Camera HDMI Cable Extension

It is a great product to make a SOHO CCTV. I used Raspberry PI B+ and 4 meter HDMI cable, works good.

Christopher | April 2, 2016

Works great!! ... but there are caveats!!

For Pi Camera HDMI Cable Extension

Genius idea, so congrats to Petit Studio, this has saved me many headaches! If you are thinking of ordering some for an urgent project, allow a couple of weeks for delivery into your timescale. Something this cool, you always want it instantly to put it through its paces, so two weeks sitting on your hands can feel like a long time. Please beware that this product does NOT work with the Waveshare (http://www.waveshare.com/rpi-camera-f.htm) Rpi camera with the adjustable lense for macro photography - which has given me a minor headache to overcome. I have a few of these Waveshare cameras testing each of them gave the same result - they get red hot just after bootup and do not register on the system. Unfortunately, finding a solution to this issue was beyond my level of expertise, so I'm not much help to others with the same problem!
The standard Rpi camera works perfectly with this product, no extra noise, no unwanted heating.
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Response from Petit Studio | April 16, 2016
I received a Waveshare camera model I, after restarting the PI it works without problem. Try to shutdown and unplug the PI, set the camera and HDMI connectors and start the PI, it should work like the standard camera.

Here is my previous answer:
Thanks for your comment and introducing the Waveshare camera, I will order one and try to check what can be the problem. In addition to the standard camera, I tried only tThe Adafruit Spy camera (https://www.adafruit.com/products/1937) and it works.

Frank | March 21, 2016

Great product

For Pi Camera HDMI Cable Extension

The set works great, allowing flexibility in camera placement and leaving the raspberry box including the attached cables nicely hidden out of sight.

Jean-Baptiste | March 14, 2016

well thought

For Pi Camera HDMI Cable Extension

This cable extension should actually come with the PI camera! Then, one could be free to install the camera either close to the PI or slightly away from it

Jukka | March 5, 2016

Toimii

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Toimii, mutta pitää olla laadukas hdmi piuha. Halvoilla hdmi piuhoilla ei toimi.
Itselläni toimi DELTACON ohuella HDMI-kaapelilla.

Jeffrey | Feb. 25, 2016

Great!

For Pi Camera HDMI Cable Extension

This adapter is great! I used it with the third party NoIR camera sold by SainSmart. The mounting holes line up, however because the connector is on the front of the camera board I had to mount the camera upside-down in order to get the ribbon cable to be connected correctly. It still works well though, just requires some software changes to flip or rotate the image. The four extra pins and exposed 3.3 and GND are going to be very useful to add some additional devices at the camera as well.

Robert | Feb. 8, 2016

Great

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Took about a week to arrive once posted, which I can't fault as it came from France, I found it really easy to set up, though the size of the bolts and spacers coupled with the springy-ness of the ribbon cable could make it fiddly. Works brilliantly.

If anyone is interested I bought a NEET ultra-slim 3m HDMI cable (http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00J2SVFNM), which worked perfectly with the adapters (no soldering the ground needed) and is nice and slim (~4mm cable diameter)

Bill | Feb. 2, 2016

Works as expected

For Pi Camera HDMI Cable Extension

I am using this CCA for a octopi setup. Wanted to keep the raspi closer to my ATX power supply and the stock ribbon cable only comes in 30 cm max. This worked with a 6ft HDMI cord with no problems.

Thomas | Jan. 30, 2016

Perfect

For Pi Camera HDMI Cable Extension

The adapters was easy to assemble and work as expected. I can see no decline in camera quality caused by the longer cable (1.5m in my test). With the flexible and longer cable between Pi an camera it's much easier to align the camera. And with two of the adapters it's possible to change between 'normal' and NoIR camera when the Pi is running.

The sender was in France, but the package was shipped from Japan. So the shipment take a little bit longer than expected.

Igor | Jan. 29, 2016

UPD: Finaly delivered!

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The package indeed was from Japan, thats explaines such a long trip. Thanks to seler for such valueble product!

>>>23 days passed, perhaps to much for sending a package within Europe. No tracking number provided. No options to check if it was really sent.

John | Jan. 29, 2016

good product, prompt delivery , good online description .

For Pi Camera HDMI Cable Extension

It would be even better if a miniature HDMI connection could be made to work.
Also, attention should be directed towards making a similar interface connector for the Adafruit spycamera .

Johan | Jan. 24, 2016

Works as planned

For Pi Camera HDMI Cable Extension

The extension worked as planned. Was easy to assemble. Only thing I had to do was to solder the GND to the HDMI-cable shield, but this was prepared for on the board so it was very easy once I realized I had to do it.

Lee | Jan. 19, 2016

HDMI extender for Raspberry Pi Camera

For Pi Camera HDMI Cable Extension

Brilliant bit of kit. Works straight away and very easy to assemble. Well worth the money and really quick delivery.

David | Dec. 29, 2015

Does what is says fine and arrived okay

For Pi Camera HDMI Cable Extension

Works well to send the raspberry Pi camera over longer distances. Took a week or so to come but does come from France

Scott | Dec. 24, 2015

just arrived

For Pi Camera HDMI Cable Extension

Will work on the project in the next few days...can't wait to get started and use motioneye software

Adam | Dec. 11, 2015

Great adapter, could use some tweaks

For Pi Camera HDMI Cable Extension

The camera adapter works great after a bit of tweaking.

First it didn't work at all with any of the HDMI cables I tried, which was noted in the description that this may happen with cheaper HDMI cables without the proper ground wires. The seller says you can create a ground by putting a strand of solder from one spot on the board to one of the pins on the adapter (see his blog post link at the end of the assembly instructions). The photo he has of this fix is out of date however as he has redesigned the circuit board to have a specific ground connection spot where all you have to do is solder a tiny blob to join a purposely broken connection (looks like 2 small rectangles in the corner of the board).

After I soldered that connection on both circuit boards the camera would work perfectly with any HDMI cable. Since the test was done, now it was time to assemble it all together with the provided spacers and screws. I found this to be extremely annoying because you're trying to hold a camera, circuit board, ribbon cable, screws, spacers, washers, and nuts all at the same time while trying to tighten the screws. I must have dropped each piece of hardware at least 3 times each. You need 3 pairs of hands to hold everything together because the ribbon cable acts as a spring forcing the camera and adapter apart which is why everything keeps moving around. My partial solution for this was to measure the spacers and rebuild them in 3D to be connected to each other with tabs so that it was a single piece rather than 4 little pieces. After I printed that out, I also printed out the sellers thingiverse model of the case. It was only after trying to assemble everything that I realized that the supplied screws are not going to work with the case because they're too short. It was going to be next to impossible to find those same type of tiny screws in a longer length here in town, so I ended up rebuilding the case in 3D and modified it so that the screws could just barely work.

Last modification I did was to add a ring lip to the front of the case around the camera lens so that I could attach a small magnetic wide angle lens to the case. This gives a better view of the print bed while keeping the camera close to the printer.

Long story short, some longer screws and linking the 4 spacers into a single part would be nice.

Darren | Dec. 1, 2015

super product

For Pi Camera HDMI Cable Extension

Fantastic product, well made, no problems it just works. I used a 5 meter HDMI cable and there are no losses or strange happenings, I presume it can do a much longer cable

Teemu | Nov. 30, 2015

Nice product with fast delivery

For Pi Camera HDMI Cable Extension

Product does what was promised and works well. Good work done in packaging & fast delivery. Thanks!

David | Nov. 11, 2015

Exactly what I expected. Would buy again

For Pi Camera HDMI Cable Extension

Great product. My only criticism might be that the supplied ribbon cables were too short for my application, but maybe I should have checked that before I bought!!

Ovidiu | Oct. 23, 2015

I tried...

For Pi Camera HDMI Cable Extension

I tried to make my own flexible RPi camera cable. It worked but there was a lot of interference and the video quality wasn't too good. ... it didn't cross my mind to use a HDMI cable.. Then I found this and immediately ordered 2 sets (just in case). Arrived to Singapore in 9 days. Works like a charm!!!!

Mike | Oct. 7, 2015

Great; take care in choosing cables

For Pi Camera HDMI Cable Extension

Works just fine with my thicker hdmi cable, doesn't work at all with cables that have redmere (in retrospect, duh), and with the posted fix for cheaper slim cables it worked, but variably; the latter is likely due to shoddy cables as I bought three of the same make and two ended up not working even with the ground fix (I bought multiple converters too, so I was able to pin it down to the cables).

Kev | Sept. 28, 2015

Works Great

For Pi Camera HDMI Cable Extension

This product arrived from France to the UK in about 2 weeks.

First impressions are that the product is very well made, obviously a lot of thought and care have gone into the design.
I'm very electronically 'challenged' so couldn't begin to describe how it works but the description given by the Petit Studio is simple enough for even me to know I've bought the right product for my needs.

The camera didn't give a feed from the first HDMI cable I tried ( I think this may have been supplied with my PS3), but swapping it for the cable from my Sky+ HD box worked a treat.

I'm now going to purchase a thinner or flatter HDMI cable to provide a more streamlined or lighter setup.

All in all, delighted with my purchase and would consider buying another product from Petit Studio.

Justin | Aug. 19, 2015

Works just as advertised!

For Pi Camera HDMI Cable Extension

Overall impression: the device works just as I'd hoped that it would.

Extended review: Shipping took quite a while. I received a 'package shipped' notification from tindie but no updates, tracking information, etc. I had nearly given up on the package arriving, then it finally came in.

Assembly was super simple as per the pictures in the ad. I even 3D-printed the enclosure that Freto/Petit Studio linked through Thingiverse for a more polished finished product. The last physical alteration to integrate the product was to hard-mount the pi-side board on my pi enclosure.

As for HDMI cable, I went for an Amazon basics HDMI with ethernet and audio cable.

When I plugged everything in and powered it up, the camera was recognized as usual. No fuss.

I'm happy with the product, now that I have it.

Jim | July 31, 2015

Not working for me...

For Pi Camera HDMI Cable Extension

I recently purchased the HDMI adapter kit and am having problems getting it to work. I've tried several HDMI cables with and without the outer shield grounded (one cable had High Speed HDMI Cable with Ethernet stamped on it) and none of them worked (the camera device wasn't detected). I verified that the camera is still operational by connecting the supplied short ribbon cable from the camera to the Raspberry Pi. At this point I'm looking for suggestions to troubleshoot the problem. Would someone please verify that I've connected the HDMI ribbon cables correctly (see attached photo)?

Thanks,
/Jim Review Image
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Response from Petit Studio | July 31, 2015
Hard to see on your small picture but it looks fine so it should work if you closed well the lid of the connectors.
If you cannot make it work you can send me the kit back and I will check it and/or replace it.
Please Email me with the message function to get my current address

Jeff | July 22, 2015

Love this thing

For Teensy 3* Proto Board & Arduino Shield V1.1

I've got this and the Teensy 3.1 breakout and I love them both. I keep debating whether or not I want to attach one of those mini breadboards to it or not (kinda don't want to ruin it since it'd kind of be a waste of space if I wanted to put a shield on it).

My only real gripes are that the silk-screening is a bit hard to read - though there are a boatload of pins, so I can certainly see how labeling would be problematic! I just ended up printing out a cheat sheet, though it too is a bit hard to read (darn all those options lol!)

The other is that while the double rows of pins for the teensy is an excellent idea, its a tad close to the shield area making it difficult to use the pins on the side of the board facing a shield (depends on the shield I suppose).

I'd love to see someone printing pinouts on the headers like the Uno (from Arduino themselves). Would make things so much easier.

I suppose too, it'd be nice to get a US distributor for faster shipping, though it was pretty quick anyway.

Keep up the awesome work!

Armando | July 20, 2015

The product is very good

For Pi Camera HDMI Cable Extension

I install the product on a Raspeberry Pi model B using a Pi Camera Noir (v 1.3) and an Amazon Basic HDMI cable (1m long). The components and the video quality are very good.

Dies | July 16, 2015

Still did not receive the item!

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Shipment takes way too long; 4 weeks and counting! No tracking nr... if I ever will receive the item!
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Response from Petit Studio | July 17, 2015
Are you in Germany?
Shipping is standard Air Mail so it should take 5 to 7 days (10 if bad luck) worldwide; however I have had a few complaints from people in Germany not receiving their kit in a reasonable time (2 months happened) . I don't know what the German post is doing compare to other European country but there is nothing I can do expect stopping to sell in Germany.

Neil | July 9, 2015

Great things do come in small packages

For Pi Camera HDMI Cable Extension

I bought the HDMI extension so I could play around with stop motion animation with my Raspberry Pi. I had to solder extra wire to the case as the cable I have isn't well grounded and I had trouble working out which way the ribbon goes into the slots. A detailed webpage with images would have helped a lot.

Once I had it up and running it was great. All I need to do now if try and find a lighter cable or a better way to mount the camera but that's another adventure...

Yazeed | July 4, 2015

Great idea, great product

For Pi Camera HDMI Cable Extension

This is GREAT, i used the 5 cables i found lying around that came with cheap DVD players and android boxes, none of them worked so i thought there was a problem with the kit (I tried the grounding thing, did not work either), then i went and got a sixth cable (2M SAMSUNG Mobile phone HDMI cable), and it worked perfect, so before you tell this man that it did not work, try a good cable, there is nothing he can do about the bad cables on the market, unless he can start selling HDMI cables himself, but would you want to pay to ship that from Japan ?

For people complaining about the lack of instructions ! seriously, the thing is simpler than ANY LEGO game designed for a 6 year old, put the cable that fits in the right hole, and if you are finding that too complicated, take a look at the photo he posted, what more instructions do you need ?

I found angle adapters for $1 in an electronics store to give it that 90 degrees cable connector, I also hot glued that to the board, and ot glued both the board and the 90 degree adapter to the case, so that i can simply plug and unplug from the $1 adapter, this way, if i pluck it out the wrong way, i will break the thing that is not essential, and i don't need to wait for 5 days for a new adapter from Japan.

All in all, I love this product, I will buy it with every camera board i get from this point on, i tried 1 meeter ribbon adapters, 1 meeter round adapters, Nothing is as simple and reliable as this solution, more power to you man.

Peter | June 25, 2015

Really impressed.

For Pi Camera HDMI Cable Extension

No documentation though pretty self explanatory, a quick check on the web found the documents.

It'll definitely help with future projects, if i can find some longer screws then it can be used with this product that i already have the camera mounted in. at the moment the ribbon is loose.
http://www.modmypi.com/raspberry-pi/camera/adjustable-raspberry-pi-camera-mount-and-protector
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