Difference between revisions of "Digital camera"

Revision as of 00:05, 5 November 2007

What should Open Circuits say about digital cameras?

Should I move my tips on building a digital camera from scratch to this page? --DavidCary 11:26, 24 October 2007 (PDT)

Should we talk about circuits that adapt off-the-shelf cameras to do things they were never intended to do?

"How to give your low-end Canon digital camera RAW support" by Nathan Willis 2007, discusses CHDK, an enhanced, free software replacement firmware. There is a CHDK wiki.
Other people have replaced the firmware of a "$11 Dakota Digital Camera" [1] [2]. "author is now working on allowing user code (e.g. compiled in C) to be downloaded and executed from the camera's RAM."
the CamMan project that uses a 8 pin Microchip PIC microcontroller to snap the shutter of an off-the-shelf camera attached to a RC airplane.
DIY Drones: Amateur UAVs often talks about attaching cameras to RC airplanes
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 Should we talk about circuits that adapt off-the-shelf cameras to do things they were never intended to do?
+* [http://www.linux.com/feature/118946 "How to give your low-end Canon digital camera RAW support"] by Nathan Willis 2007, discusses CHDK, an enhanced, free software replacement firmware. There [http://chdk.wikia.com/ is a CHDK wiki].
+* Other people have replaced the firmware of a "$11 Dakota Digital Camera" [http://cexx.org/dakota/] [http://cexx.org/dakota/pv2.htm]. "author is now working on allowing user code (e.g. compiled in C) to be downloaded and executed from the camera's RAM."
 * [http://www.rc-cam.com/camman.htm the CamMan project] that uses a 8 pin [[Microchip]] PIC microcontroller to snap the shutter of an off-the-shelf camera attached to a RC airplane.
 * [http://diydrones.com/ DIY Drones: Amateur UAVs] often talks about attaching cameras to RC airplanes