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BMD has done some innovative things through their SDI port, specifically enabling camera control with an Arduino-add-on board. Someone finally did what I've wa
by ShadowBanThis01 3y ago
BMD has done some innovative things through their SDI port, specifically enabling camera control with an Arduino-add-on board.
Someone finally did what I've wanted to see for years: built a follow-focus unit that controls the focusing motors in the lenses, so you don't have to bolt a ridiculous contraption (and janky focusing-ring adapters) onto a lens to turn its (non-mechanical) focusing ring manually.
- mschuster91 3y agoWhat I want to see is someone dump the FPGA in these Micro Converters and hack it to add an USB interface. The Micro Converters are all just the same in the interior: SerDes units and clock/redrivers on the I/O ports and an FPGA that additionally has an USB connection which is used to power the converter but could also be used to do other things. That FPGA should be powerful enough to do a lot of interesting things - anything from fooling around with commands (like with the Arduino board) to image manipulation (e.g. a watermark embed).