DEV KIT WEEKLY: THine Cable Extension Kit for the Raspberry Pi Camera Module

Enter Raffle Here: So we have a Raspberry Pi 4 Model B. And we have version 2 of the Raspberry Pi Camera Module. They interface via a MIPI CSI-2 connector and this ribbon cable, which is about six inches long. But what if you need to position the camera a significant distance above your Pi, say, to function as a webcam? Or across the room? The ribbon cable gets really short, really fast. But don’t worry, THine has an alternative in the form of this cable extension kit, the THSER101, which is designed around this plug-and-play adaptor card that features V-by-One HS signaling technology. Not familiar with V-by-One HS? Neither was I. So let’s start there. V-by-One HS is an open digital signaling standard that runs over twisted pairs but much faster than LVDS – up to 16 Gbps per lane. A version of the technology was introduced by THine back in 2007 as a means of resolving timing skew, EMI, and other challenges that HDTV manufacturers were ex