A dashcam, taken apart

What is inside a 35-dollar-class dashcam, built from the chip datasheet and an open reference board as a 3D model you can take apart.

Built around the Allwinner V851S from its datasheet and the schematic and bill of materials of the open TinyVision board: a dashcam you can take apart in your browser.

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Click any part on the board

The main board is modelled at real size, with about 100 parts. Click one to see its reference, part number, package and source. The V851S packages 64 MB of DDR2 inside the chip, so the board has no separate memory.

Front of the dashcam main board with the V851S chip.

Close-up of the power parts on the main board.

How to look around

Scroll to follow the teardown, or drag to rotate, zoom, and click a part to read its specs. Open the interactive teardown

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