alt Hacker NewsGuy Built a Compact Camera Using an Optical Mouse
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These kind of news are for me the real news for this website instead of a new fancy tech product of Apple or similar corporation.
Sincerely a lot of thanks.
Compressed sensing! What Terence Tao uses to sell math funding!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EE9AETSoPHw&t=44
https://www.instructables.com/Single-Pixel-Camera-Using-an-L...
(Okay not the same guy, but I wanted to share this somewhat related "extreme" camera project)
The original post: https://www.reddit.com/r/electronics/comments/1olyu7r/i_made...
The video on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/3Dprinting/comments/1olyzn6/i_made_...
I have to say, the Game Boy camera doesn't have only 4 colors. It has an analog output you can connect to your own ADC with more bits and get more shades of gray. I even managed to get color pictures out of it by swapping color filters and combining the images.
I always say "on a scale from no canoe to a $5K canoe, even the crappiest canoe is 80% of the way there". This camera illustrates that for vision. When you hear about those visual implants that give you, say, 16x16 grayscale you think that's nothing. Yet 30x30 grayscale as seen in this video, especially with live updates and not just a still frame is... vision. Not 80% of the way there, but does punch way above its weight class in terms of usefulness.