wanna make a little timelapse cam

hi guys .
I wanna build a camera to see my plants near windows growing.

I have a Phone camera from an old broken android phone. Cam works . I want to plug it into some electronic stuff and hopefully make a timelapse cam out of it. The logic behind is simple . The cam will take pics in at specified times then shuts itself down to battery-save. I also want it to be able to work with solar power . What do i need?
Where can i assembly the camera. do i need a motherboard for it ? Micro SD card would be good for pics.


This 1v solar cell is weak but i can think of buying one if the idea is possible.

this is the cam i have. its 5MP fair cam if i'll succeed to get it plugged .

It's unlikely that you can use that camera as the pinout is unknown (I think).

I did this a few years ago using an old samsung camera similar to this,

Along with a pic chip and a servo to operate it. These days you'd probably use an Arduino.

Mike.
Edit, if I was going to do it today I'd use my cannon DSLR and use the Arduino IR library to trigger it.

OK Thanks, that sounds logical.