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nzo
2009 September 5th, 20:40
Came across this (http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/09/open_source_frakencamera.html) today on the Make website.

Computational photography (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_photography) researchers at Stanford have developed this open-source 'Frankencamera' (http://graphics.stanford.edu/projects/camera-2.0/) using a sensor from a Nokia n95 cell phone, Canon camera lenses, and an ARM (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture) development board. Their goal is to create a future where your digital camera is no different than any other computer, and you can load new programs into it in order to change how it works. Of course, you can kind of do that now with Canon cameras by using CKDK (http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/06/how_to_canon_hackers_deve.html), however their approach is from the ground up and should be much more versatile. I love my Nikon camera, but I would love to be able to open it up and reprogram it at my bidding!
LOGOS PATHOS ETHOS
2009 September 6th, 01:41
hmm that frankencamera sure has the right name, ugly as hell man XD

I'd rather have a whole team of developers paid by canon to do the hardwork hehe


funny thing is, I'm 80% sure the guys hacking cameras all over the place will mostly be shooting flowers, babies and pets at home lol like most of the diy footage out there lol
Seo
2009 September 6th, 01:57
Pretty cool thing though, you have to admit.

Even if only the geniuses at Stanford get to play with it... Heh, at least my place in Cali is next to Stanford.
LOGOS PATHOS ETHOS
2009 September 6th, 02:00
yeah I didn't say it wasn't cool, I admire the effort just pointed out that usually people who spend too much time hacking cameras tend to forget about the purpose of the camera and get hooked up on just the awesomeness of it :-P
CorbenT
2009 September 6th, 02:17
Even if only the geniuses at Stanford get to play with it

Actually the plural of Genius is Genii. Yes, I knew the day would come when taking Latin for 4 years would pay off!!!
Fleshoff
2009 October 8th, 19:06
Congrats Corben!! Money well spent!
Seo
2009 October 9th, 05:12
Actually the plural of Genius is Genii. Yes, I knew the day would come when taking Latin for 4 years would pay off!!!

Haha, nice one. Thanks for the correction!
Erik Bien
2009 October 9th, 11:43
Actually the plural of Genius is Genii.

Actually, the Oxford English Dictionary accepts both. Some Latin words co-opted into English use Latin plural forms (i.e., criteria as the plural of criterion), while others do not (i.e., stadiums is generally preferred to stadia).

Sorry: as a former typesetter/proofreader, I couldn't resist ... :hv20-smilie84:
Seo
2009 October 9th, 11:59
Actually, the Oxford English Dictionary accepts both. Some Latin words co-opted into English use Latin plural forms (i.e., criteria as the plural of criterion), while others do not (i.e., stadiums is generally preferred to stadia).

Sorry: as a former typesetter/proofreader, I couldn't resist ... :hv20-smilie84:

The genius outsmarts the genius! Amazing! :hv20-smilie81:
um3k
2009 October 9th, 13:15
The battle of the geniusii! :hv20-smilie45::hv20-smilie48:
sdeming
2009 October 9th, 16:53
This is really cool.