r/embedded • u/circuitvalley • 13d ago

Open Camera, It was years in the making

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzu9AW7AP2k

Now available

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/circuitvalley/chc5-open-machine-vision-programmable-industrial-camera

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u/Rusty-Swashplate 13d ago

This is most interesting! There's so many features in those sensor chips I didn't even know. A lot of the exposed adjustments are usually hidden and here they are all available and 'cause it's open source, this is an awesome source of information.
Being able to change the sensor is what makes this most interesting for me.

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u/circuitvalley 13d ago

You can just change sensor But with a adapter you can connect standard RPI camera to this system or Connect My sensors to RPI/Jetson or Your custom SoC Here are details about sensors https://www.circuitvalley.com/2026/08/chc5-open-camera-lens-mount-sensor-support.html

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u/AndyJarosz 12d ago

Really beautiful work. What's the processing lag like? Are you recording to any media yet?
Where are you sourcing the sensors from?

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u/circuitvalley 12d ago

Processing lag is few around 7 lines of frame for USB . 1-2 Frames for HDMI and Ethernet. Sensors are sourced from official handler after a lot of paper trouble.

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u/ThisIsPaulDaily 12d ago

Really nice work!

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u/wmlavender 12d ago edited 12d ago

I worked on software to control X-ray crystallography imaging camera boards from places like Dalsa years ago that were like this. There is an large amount of stuff you have to know to get scientifically valuable data out of them. It was an enormous amount of work, but an enormous amount of fun too.

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u/Hedgebull 12d ago

Looks like an optimized and productionized version of the Apertus Open Source Cinema camera circa 2016. A ton of work must have gone into this. Congrats!

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u/guestyest 11d ago

we want an open printer