Maybe you don't need a PDU for AC power, you can get a 12VDC "PDU" by using a blank 1U Panel and drill some sockets, and a high amperage AC/DC converter (or brick).

Hey bro...I say this out of love. YOu have to give up the Diet Pepsi. Its Poison. Im sorry....don't ban me. Its jsut true. With your gut troubles you can't touch this cancer.

6:57 I have that exact tripod (part of it missing) and I find it still working fairly well. You can do angles IF you telescope the legs, and you have to twist the ring it to fold it out more. the manufacturing isn't great though so it doesn't operate very smoothly

I recently repurposed a poco f2 pro for a c-mount camera lens and had been getting contrast issues / weird colors on the edges of the CMOS, which I weren’t able to pinpoint the issue of. Glad that Jeff reviewed the ArduCam Pis, now I have a decent idea that it is due to the ISP and the lack of a lens hood.

nice

Great scott

Have you covered something like the FLIR Lepton platform? I've played with them before and they're pretty cool.

-that's cool-

15:12 Queue "George Baker- Little Green Bag"

I've never built anything like this but want to. I want something small like this but also able to be very rugged. Could you not just break those pogo pin things off? What do they do ?

If crowd funding reduces the risk for the manufacturer it'll hopefully encourage more adventurous product development. Though slightly awkward position for content creators.

Great Scott

14:33 this is where a lens hood would come in handy

How about trying A SBC NAS based on Odroid H3? It has 2x2.5Gb network and on board 2xSATA and m.2 slot. With NIC bonding can give 5Gb, and with ZFS with 2HDDs and cache+log on the NVME can be give huge volume + great performence

Established companies use Kickstarter so they get the money up front.

thanks!!

Hello! Does the camera have a module, or is it just a sensor attached direct to the MIPI? Thank you.

I LOVE this mini-rack! I am wondering if there exists some cases for a mini rack as that one that have the 3.5 or 5.25 inches bay!

They may be using a kickstarter to gauge the demand while generating funding at the same time. This could help save on R&D instead of diverting funds from existing production and lessen the risk.

OMG... I thought the sound of rain is just from your video but it rained here also while I was watching your video...

Jeff, never thought I would see the day when you let the shirt hit the fan. Great video!

In the past couple months I've bought a bunch of ZWO astronomy cameras with these Sony sensors. A couple of them come with a fisheye lens by default. They are a lot more expensive considering a couple of the models have peltier coolers in them.

I just started watching and at every point where you mentioned the weather I was having the same here in Connecticut. When you mentioned the thunder I was having the same, I could have been fooled that it was a live stream and you were just around the corner from me. Interestingly enough 10:30 EST 05/23/2024 there is a severer weather alert here in the tri state area.

Was really hoping for some testing in dark environments to see its capabilities...

I've been waiting for someone to get their hands on one of these. The imx678 has been available for ages, but only in dashcams, as far as I can tell. Still waiting for them to appear in security cameras, but I'd much prefer to roll my own using a pi because the interface every camera I've tried is just abysmal.

I got in the DAS keyboard Kickstarter years ago. Das had a cool idea and were already a well established keyboard company. It was like a year before I got the product and it is the worst mech keyboard I've ever owned (random keys still get stuck regularly requiring unplugging). They never did a recall and firmware has yet to fix the issue. I don't trust any Kickstarter these days because of a well respected GERMAN company can't deliver a quality product in their core line of business.... Then it's just gambling for any campaign

I'm not sure if you know, but if you pull on the feet of the mini tripod the legs extend outwards and it becomes a bit more stable

Does that little tripod not have extending legs?

Forgot to mark it as 'sponsored', sir...

those legs extend on that tripod, pull the feet gently I use it for things on an angle, but it'll be an odd pyramid though..

i saw your cameo on smarter every day and it made me super pumped. appreciate you, jeff!

Also not a fan of the Kickstarter approach to bankrolling a project from an established company. I wonder how well this would work hooked up in place of an eyepiece on a telescope to image planets - Astroberry is a great project for that but I haven't seen anyone trying to use Pi cameras with it... can you even set the imaging speed and ISO to levels that would allow it with the Pi camera libraries?

"What is that, a ghost?" - Jeff literally seconds after criticizing pytorch's image recognition :-P

7:20 That tripod is working perfect if you handle it correct ...

How does arducam get the picase design files?

Participating in a Kickstarter project is like being an 'angel investor'. If it crashes and burns, in most cases, so does all your money. The creator might refund some, if they have any left. So when an 'established' company does Kickstarter projects, am like nope. You are not testing the waters with my money.

Why do all Raspberry Pi cameras get that pink aura around them? I thought it was just a product of the AliExpress ones I brought but these seem to have the same issue

This would be fun to try out as a camera for streaming or filming videos.

What kickstarter does for companies that already has some success is - give them information that people actually want this product. This seems like great way to verify market and gather some money for that specific new product that doesn't exists yet.

Jeff, what extension did you use on KZfaq to get this design 1:37?

@Level2Jeff great review and a beautifully impractical lens from that axis.... The Pivistation idea is neat, the mount and no messing with the flexi cable. POE+ or POE++ is the way to go if the case has cooling. That Fisheye lens is nice but maybe have a chat with CommonLands optics in San Diego they do some great and low cost lenses especially M12 low or no distortion with good FOV, short focal lengths for the Pi Camera HQ, sorry Arducam if you sell similar but i couldn't find any on your website. That classic line of don't worry about that noise its just my shirt getting caught in the fan.... 😂😧 Classic RedShirt Jeff move. You had better make an Emergency Power Stop button for the Shop on a utility Belt....

4:30 I've been considering buying a big usb powered noctua fan to use as a desk fan like that one in the top left. Does it work well?

I am far from a camera/optical expert. I have a tenuous grasp on this topic at best. but on the topic of all sky cameras matched with such small aperture lenses and higher megapixels... aren't we just losing resolution? My only real experience is with astrophotography, and the real resolution (angular resolution) comes down to the aperture and never the megapixels. For my all sky cameras i just use 1 megapixel cameras with tiny fish eye lenses. 8 megapixel seems a bit much but please correct me if I am way off base here.

Kick starter is good way to let people vote for the product, not always what u make is what the user wants

STH is going to be signing out with "until next time, I'm Jeff Geerling" in the next video, I bet.

Didn't you put a lot of effort into soundproofing your studio? Where is the rain sound coming in?

Wonderful. That’s a dream of a composition. I love it. Well done 👏👏👏

Kickstarter/Indiegogo/Backerkit etc are now used as a pre-order websites, because of their really useful pre-order infrastructure if you have a problem with pre-order is a separate thing, but to treat them as a donation website is not a useful metric the product is developed, pre-order allows them to know exactly how many units to create.

A kickstarter is a great way to gauge customer interest in a product.

Excellent overview. Look forward to seeing some insights/methods of how you test a camera lens and sensors. Wondering if you managed to use the night vision sensor with all-sky-view lens to capture the aurora a couple weeks ago? FYI: there is a chance we may get a repeat aurora display in a couple weeks (sun completes a rotation every ~29-30 days), so the same active area is going to reappear, but will depend on timing and strength of next outbursts. The next 6-9 months should hold additional opportunities. Late this year there is s comet that is projected to be easily visible as well.