<story><title>Open source USB C camera with C mount lens, MIPI Sensor, Lattice FPGA, USB 3.0</title><url>https://www.circuitvalley.com/2022/06/pensource-usb-c-industrial-camera-c-mount-fpga-imx-mipi-usb-3-crosslinknx.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>britneybitch</author><text>&amp;gt; At that price-point, are there other devices on the market that already fulfill the need?&lt;p&gt;No there aren&amp;#x27;t. Webcams in 2022 all have miniscule lenses&amp;#x2F;sensors paired with decade-old tech and none of the big players seem interested in producing anything higher quality.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;reincubate.com&amp;#x2F;support&amp;#x2F;how-to&amp;#x2F;why-are-webcams-bad&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;reincubate.com&amp;#x2F;support&amp;#x2F;how-to&amp;#x2F;why-are-webcams-bad&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you want high-quality video capture, your options are pretty much just (1) plug in a &amp;quot;real&amp;quot; $$$$ DSLR&amp;#x2F;mirrorless camera which will be fiddly and prone to overheating, or (2) use a cell phone as an IP camera, which will add noticeable latency and is still a tiny sensor compensated for by AI.&lt;p&gt;If this was for sale fully assembled I&amp;#x27;d easily spend a few hundred on it. I don&amp;#x27;t care about networking, just give me plain old USB.</text></item><item><author>AceJohnny2</author><text>At a guess, this would likely cost in the high-hundreds to thousands of dollars if &amp;quot;mass&amp;quot; produced.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;mass&amp;quot; production is &lt;i&gt;really&lt;/i&gt; expensive, as you have to add design-for-manufacturability and design-for-testing, and account for yield loss and customer support (how happy would you be if your expensive camera appeared DOA?).&lt;p&gt;At that price-point, are there other devices on the market that already fulfill the need?&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;Adding network connectivity to this project probably wouldn&amp;#x27;t be a large endeavour&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;lol</text></item><item><author>imiric</author><text>This looks wonderful!&lt;p&gt;I wish it could be mass produced, with some minor polish. I would throw money at it instantly. If the author is reading this, have you considered crowd sourcing it? It&amp;#x27;s great that everything is open source, but putting one together is above my skill level.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m desperately looking for a hackable webcam that isn&amp;#x27;t a huge privacy risk. Adding network connectivity to this project probably wouldn&amp;#x27;t be a large endeavour.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bryanlarsen</author><text>&amp;gt;&amp;gt; At that price-point, are there other devices on the market that already fulfill the need?&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; No there aren&amp;#x27;t.&lt;p&gt;There are tons of cameras that meet this need.  They&amp;#x27;re &amp;quot;machine vision&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;scientific&amp;quot; cameras, google for those.   Edmund Scientific has a good selection.   They&amp;#x27;re ridiculously expensive for what you get if you&amp;#x27;re comparing against a webcam or a surveillance camera since they&amp;#x27;re very similar to those for &amp;gt;10x the price.   That&amp;#x27;s the price of low volume assembly, proper support, et cetera.</text></comment>
<story><title>Open source USB C camera with C mount lens, MIPI Sensor, Lattice FPGA, USB 3.0</title><url>https://www.circuitvalley.com/2022/06/pensource-usb-c-industrial-camera-c-mount-fpga-imx-mipi-usb-3-crosslinknx.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>britneybitch</author><text>&amp;gt; At that price-point, are there other devices on the market that already fulfill the need?&lt;p&gt;No there aren&amp;#x27;t. Webcams in 2022 all have miniscule lenses&amp;#x2F;sensors paired with decade-old tech and none of the big players seem interested in producing anything higher quality.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;reincubate.com&amp;#x2F;support&amp;#x2F;how-to&amp;#x2F;why-are-webcams-bad&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;reincubate.com&amp;#x2F;support&amp;#x2F;how-to&amp;#x2F;why-are-webcams-bad&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you want high-quality video capture, your options are pretty much just (1) plug in a &amp;quot;real&amp;quot; $$$$ DSLR&amp;#x2F;mirrorless camera which will be fiddly and prone to overheating, or (2) use a cell phone as an IP camera, which will add noticeable latency and is still a tiny sensor compensated for by AI.&lt;p&gt;If this was for sale fully assembled I&amp;#x27;d easily spend a few hundred on it. I don&amp;#x27;t care about networking, just give me plain old USB.</text></item><item><author>AceJohnny2</author><text>At a guess, this would likely cost in the high-hundreds to thousands of dollars if &amp;quot;mass&amp;quot; produced.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;mass&amp;quot; production is &lt;i&gt;really&lt;/i&gt; expensive, as you have to add design-for-manufacturability and design-for-testing, and account for yield loss and customer support (how happy would you be if your expensive camera appeared DOA?).&lt;p&gt;At that price-point, are there other devices on the market that already fulfill the need?&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;Adding network connectivity to this project probably wouldn&amp;#x27;t be a large endeavour&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;lol</text></item><item><author>imiric</author><text>This looks wonderful!&lt;p&gt;I wish it could be mass produced, with some minor polish. I would throw money at it instantly. If the author is reading this, have you considered crowd sourcing it? It&amp;#x27;s great that everything is open source, but putting one together is above my skill level.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m desperately looking for a hackable webcam that isn&amp;#x27;t a huge privacy risk. Adding network connectivity to this project probably wouldn&amp;#x27;t be a large endeavour.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>542458</author><text>There is another option: You can buy relatively high quality PTZ cameras designed for low-end broadcast (HoW and legislative mostly). Some will output to USB, at the higher end you’ll need to capture SDI, NDI, or 2110.&lt;p&gt;I have a coworker with this setup and it’s easily the best video quality I’ve ever seen on a teams call even in his fairly dark room.</text></comment>