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But then why hasn't open source stepped into the breach? This seems like the kind of thing that a single, dedicated hacker could crack wide open. The pieces a
by bsder 2y ago
But then why hasn't open source stepped into the breach?
This seems like the kind of thing that a single, dedicated hacker could crack wide open.
The pieces are all commodity, no? People can buy lenses independently, so you don't have to design those. Everything else should be COTS--processor, networking/cellular, display, etc.
It might not be super cheap, but it shouldn't exceed $500 on the BOM. And then people can iterate on it over time.
- ge0rg 2y agoCreating a high performance image processing pipeline requires significant engineering effort and probably a custom SoC or DSP. You need to take care of auto focus and all the other physical configurations (shutter time, aperture, ISO), then you need to add post processing to correct for lens distortion and to do white balancing. I wish there was a FOSS camera, eg with the rather open MFT lens mount, but I don't see it happen any time soon.