I believe we have one of these in the building somewhere. --Eric On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 11:37 AM, Radu Bogdan Rusu wrote: > Abe, > > Interesting - thanks for sharing this. I wasn't aware of this company. > > "Elphel Inc. has been creating the worlds first open camera systems based on free (GNU/GPL) software and  open hardware. > Elphel Inc. is an Utah based company which went into business in 2001 and was founded  by the digital imaging specialist > Andrey Filippov (PhD) who before worked for the General Physics Institute  in Moscow, Russia,  in the area of high-speed > high-resolution, mixed signal design, application of PLDs and  FPGAs, microprocessor-based embedded system hardware and > software design, with a special focus on  image acquisition methods for laser physics studies and computer automation of > scientific experiments." > > http://wiki.elphel.com/index.php?title=Roadmap - also interesting: "CMOS sensor-specific distortions caused by the > Electronic Rolling Shutter do not need to be removed realtime - the PC power may be not enough to do so. It is perfectly > OK to be able to just post-process the video recorded from the camera." > > > Not sure about this being the ultimate camera for robotics though =) Where's all the 3D love? ;) How about a 5MPixel > PrimeSense 3D sensor? ;) > > Cheers, > Radu. > > > On 11/30/2010 11:10 AM, Abe Bachrach wrote: >> Hi there, >> >> Has anyone tried/used the elphel camera system? >> http://www3.elphel.com/ >> It is an open source software/hardware "smart" camera system that combines the camera with an FPGA, and an embedded >> processor. >> >> It looks like it would be very useful for robotics applications; however, it is currently only available with a 5Mpix >> sensor with a ROLLING shutter. >> >> It seems to me that if they (or someone else) developed a sensor-head with a global shutter, (and integrated it with an >> IMU) it could be the ultimate camera for robotics applications. >> >> Does anyone have experience with it? >> thanks, >> -=Abe >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> ros-users mailing list >> ros-users@code.ros.org >> https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users > _______________________________________________ > ros-users mailing list > ros-users@code.ros.org > https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users >