PART 2 of 4
Last year saw the Mu team test multiple sensors and specialty lenses from
various manufacturers, design and engineer a good deal of our own unique
hardware; architect, write and re-write the software; experiment with dozens of
attachment mechanisms as well as design a lens and shutter assembly which has
taken considerable cost out of the camera, while at the same time adding
functionality. The team’s newest partner, our Industrial Design/
Mechanical Engineering lead is a perfect complement to the original team’s brilliant
physics effort. He has brought to market a myriad of high-technology and
consumer products. We are very close to the finish line.
While we have made missteps, we
apologize, but more importantly we are also now being held to higher standards
internally. You'll see that going forward. We'll update, at the
least, every few weeks.
Here are some recent highlights:
Last month, after adopting and re-engineering the core electronics to take advantage of a terrific new sensor: We achieved “First Heat” with this new sensor using our production electronics. On achieving this milestone: we are greatly pleased to announce that our research stage for this product has come to a close and the actual product development is quickly proceeding. It now appears we're on track to deliver cameras later this spring as we previously posted.
The smartphone software has been nearly complete for some time now, and we are presently verifying the histographic content of images from the production electronics to move the system engineering into the “completed” category. Because of the nature of the mobile marketplace: it's our goal to ship our imager as both iPhone and Android ready.