Dream Devices

It is about all the tools, machines, devices of your dream you want to make !

• Existing but too expensive
• Doesn't exist but should
• Seems quite complex to make lonely but not in a hackerspace

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The e-film :

Fed-up with all those expensive digital cameras ? Re-use your old but good 35mm argentic camera (SLR, telemeter...) with an electronic sensor in place of the film.

• Form factor : same as a 35mm roll film.
• Modern sensor, SD card, modern microprocessor, linux embedded.

First exemple in the industry in 2001 but fail :

• http://www.01net.com/article/148262.html
• http://www.dpreview.com/news/9909/99090501siliconfilm.asp

The DV Hard-Disk

Re-use your old but good HI8, DV camcorder with a small hard disk recorder instead of tapes. You can bring back to life all the camcoders with tape recoder defects.

• Form factor : a box containing a 3,5" HD
• Analogical and digital inputs : S-video, CINCH, IEEE1394 (firewire)
• Standard camcoder battery deck
• Lcd to navigate in files.
• Microprocessors for live encoding in DV, MJPEG, X264..

Exemples :

• MR-HD100 Portable DTE Recorder : http://www.focusinfo.com/solutions/mr-hd100.asp
• CitiDISK Digital Video Recorder ( Disk and SSD) : http://www.shining.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=27&Itemid=60