Hello All,
I thought I'd share with you a few pieces of hardware and manufacturing news.
On the hardware end, I'm happy to be able to say that we've settled on a microcontroller from Atmel, the Sam3x. This 84MHz MCU is the brains of the imager, it drives the image sensor and the communications equipment. We've been using this chip since early in the development cycle and trust it to be able to give great performance in the camera.
We also have a wireless chipset from RedPine Signals that enables realtime wireless video from the imager to your smartphone or computer. It's been very fun adding wireless and we think that we have a few more tweaks we can implement to get some added functionality out of it.
We're narrowing down our assembly options(there have been a lot of potential manufacturers) and for our electronics and pcb manufacturing, our current top contenders are "Advanced Circuits" and "American Standard Circuits". Both great companies.
As we work to get the case and body of the imager finalized, we have come up with a few slight modifications to the body that we are currently considering. If those ideas go anywhere, I'll try to post pictures of the possible changes down the road.
As always, Thanks for all of your support. We can't wait to get the first imagers into your hands and see what uses you come up with. (I personally really want to see someone mount one to a quadcopter drone).
Cheers,
-Charles and the MuOptics Team.
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