I Made My Own Image Sensor! (And Digital Camera)

It actually works! Finally got around to building my own digital camera from scratch. Its not an easy project, but if you want to recreate it, there are resources below!




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Instrumentals Produced By Chuki

[DaveyJohnMorris]

If you took the same picture 4 times, with a red, blue, and green filter on three of the shots, you could combine those and get a color picture. You could potentially put those on a motor inside the camera housing that would rotate the colors appropriately and have the ardunio combine them.

[SeanHodgins]

I might try and do a MEGAPixel next! What do you think?

[Beredro]

Anyone who took a pic of Bigfoot or an UFO had this Camera on hand...

[leovbernardo]

This is cool!! You designed a camera to create 32x32 application icons directly out of real life photos!

[TheDarknessConsumesMe]

1:49 "Isn't it amazing how the details come back?"

Ah yes, I can see everything so clear

[tomdchi]

Camera reviewers: "Seems to have some rolling shutter issues..."

[azyfloof]

Use a dedicated fast ADC and buffer RAM chip to grab a picture quickly, then send that to the Arduino :)
Version 2! Must see! :D

[roldha]

Still better image quality than security cameras.

[maciejd]

Finally, sensor that can create decent texture packs for Minecraft.

[rubiskelter]

I hope people appreciate how awesome this is and realize the amount of time it takes to create things like these!! I rarely find myself awe struck with diy videos as most lack the novelty factor. And its wholesome how humble you strike me to be as well. Keep up the good work.

[mikeselectricstuff]

Dude - you need a foot-operated vacuum pickup pen - way faster, especally for polarised parts, as you can set the tape to the right orientation.

[wawa]

you could make this into a COLOR! camera by putting some color filters in front of it.
so the process would be put a red color filter in front of it, take an image.
swap to a green filter take another image.
swap to a blue filter and take the final image.
then take the images and combine them into one by making each its own color channel (red, green, blue).
this process will only work well on stationary objects but its interesting none the less.
also what the part number of the photocells you used? you don't seem to say anywhere.

[MartinZemanD]

Man... This is so damn sick!
Can’t imagine how hard was working on this project.


It’s also to see how you improved in camera and video work.
It’s amazing to have you back! :)

[bufferboy]

I got an idea for recording high res images with low res sensors... Consider you want to take an image from that face model thing you had. We want to capture an image in like 320*320 res. It's 100 times the resolution of the current sensor. If you can somehow limit the view angle of the sensor to 10th of the current view (for both x and y-axis) and capture each of these 100 virtual cells one at the time, you'll end up with 100 32*32 pixel images which hold 100th of the whole image. Put them together in order like a puzzle and you have a 320*320 image.

[lucysluckyday]

WOW, this is super amazing, seriously! Next I want to know how an individual photocell is made and etched into silicon wafers at the nano scale and what makes a photocell actually photosensitive. Like your reflow oven, I use the same style of toaster as well and they work awesome!

[morganallen]

Would be cool to see this backed with an FPGA to attempt higher read rates.

[alperenerol]

A man in the early 1920s,
''In 2020 we will have flying cars''
Sean in 2020,
''Here is a 1000 pixel camera''

[ZoolanderSkytower]

This guy is now making cameras for CCTV companies, banks, robbery hotspots etc.

[DavidB-twtp]

I mean it is really cool that you can build a camera from the ground up at home, but videos like this make me really appreciate and realise how amazing technology is these days. Just look at the tiny sensors in even budget phones. It's still the same process but much smaller and still much much better, that's so cool. What a time to be alive!

[baxedm]

A DIY pick and place machine would make a great addition to your shop. I have one and boy does that save me a lot of time!