Ok, here's where my head is on the topic of an open vlogger's camera. I've designed a shell that will fit a variety of SBCs, sensor & lens combos, custom input systems, power sources, and rear display panels. The FreeCAD source file is to a large extent parametrically driven so that the shell can be rearranged for different dimensions without too much fuss. The idea is to take care of the fiddly camera bits and make it easily hackable for personal preferences. #mdc#openHardware#FreeCAD
I started a Hackaday project to track what I'm certain will be sporadic progress on this camera. I named it "My Dang Camera" (#mdc) because I enjoy open hardware that I own instead of the physical projections of hypercorps into my life. It's all mine mine mine! 😺
Also, I want to learn more about hackable camera sensor and lens standards so a modular and mutable camera body seems like a good start down that road. #openHardware#mechatronics https://hackaday.io/project/194160-my-dang-camera
Terrain is fully controlled by capital. Any attempt to re-distribute will be crushed.
Objects are the only vector attack on this system that can go unnoticed.
Make the hardware open, make the software that runs on it open. It will make the system irrelevant, bit by bit. It happened with Unixes. It can happen with (parts of) your dishwasher.
You remember the barrel maker workshop we cleaned out recently to convert into our very own camera electronics manufacturing facility. While not everything is finished yet the big machine journey of stencil printer, pick and place machine and conveyor re-flow oven happened yesterday together with hundreds of other small things. Everything arrived safely and the new space is taking shape!
Today is the last day to submit to the awesome #EverythingOpen conference in Australia! If you would like to do a talk but can't get your proposal in today please let me know and we will work with you.
We're delighted to see so many excellent quality submissions in response to the #EverythingOpen#CfP - which has been extended to this Thursday AoE (anywhere on earth).
What are you thinking of submitting? There's still time!
Codethink has been developing a number of tools and processes in order to automate as much of the testing pipeline for embedded systems as possible. Now we have put all that together, in a single piece of hardware! https://www.codethink.co.uk/articles/2023/testing-in-a-box-blog/
The CFP for Everything Open 2024 in Gladstone, Queensland closes this Sunday, November 19. That's only two or three days! (depending on what time zone you're in).
We are building an unusual 3D printer to hold our rather heavy #FabMX pellet extruder. Still a few things missing, but we are planning to live print with it at #SMRRF. Fingers crossed! #OpenHardware
SummerCart64 - A fully open source Nintendo 64 flashcart. (Github) (github.com)
SummerCart64 - a fully open source Nintendo 64 flashcart