Arduino UNO Media Carrier Adds Two Cameras for $19.25

What the Media Carrier Adds

Arduino has released the UNO Media Carrier, a $19.25 add-on board that gives the UNO Q and the newer VENTUNO Q the camera, display and audio connectors they do not have on their own. It is a small board with a specific job, and the price is the headline.

• Two 22-pin MIPI CSI connectors for 4-lane cameras, including IMX219 modules and standard Raspberry Pi cameras
• One 22-pin MIPI DSI connector for 4-lane displays, with Waveshare 5-inch, 8-inch and 10.1-inch touch panels listed as compatible
• Three 3.5mm audio jacks covering microphone input with headphone output, line output and earphone output
• $19.25 or €19.89 including VAT, sold as model ASX00083 through the Arduino store

The board measures 68.58 x 53.34 mm, carries four RGB status LEDs, and is rated from -10 to 60°C.

Why Two Camera Connectors Matter

One MIPI CSI port makes a camera project. Two make a stereo one, and that is the difference between a board that identifies objects and a board that can estimate how far away they are. Depth from stereo is the cheap route to obstacle avoidance on a small robot, and it is the reason the second connector is worth more than twice the first.

Arduino has kept the expansion path open rather than consuming it. The 60-pin JMEDIA and JMISC connectors are passthrough, so every pin the carrier uses is still available above it for another shield or a custom board. That is a small design decision that keeps the carrier from being the last thing you can add to the stack.

The hardware is open. Arduino publishes pinout diagrams, a datasheet, PDF schematics, Altium CAD files and STEP files, which means the mechanical model exists before you design an enclosure around it and the schematic exists if you want to fold the circuit into a board of your own.

What Can You Build With the UNO Media Carrier?

Arduino's own list runs to computer vision, digital signage, robotics, educational multimedia and product prototyping. The combination that stands out is the one the UNO Q and VENTUNO Q were built for in the first place: a Linux-capable applications processor next to a real-time microcontroller, now with cameras, a touchscreen and audio on the same stack.

That is a complete human-machine interface for under twenty dollars on top of the single board computer — a machine-vision inspection rig, a voice-and-vision kiosk, or a small robot that can see, show and speak. The software side arrived last week when ArduinoCore-Zephyr 1.0 added VENTUNO Q support, so the toolchain is caught up with the hardware.

For a sense of how far the UNO Q platform has already stretched, our write-up of the $90 UNO Q retro arcade bundle is a good starting point. More boards in our mini computers section.

Sources: CNX Software — September 10, 2026; Arduino Store — September 2026.