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> exclusively for Mac Why not just have it connect as a generic mass-storage device?
You shouldn't build software based on what you're a fan of. You should built it based on its usefulness to users. Very silly to limit the customer base so much to perfect something very tangential to the experience.
Can it record continously and for how long?
Why not just use something like Qt to build a native cross platform app? As others have mentioned, advertising a device as open source and yet Mac only is going to turn away a lot of people.
The honest answer is I'm a Mac guy, and a terrible businessman.
FWIW I love Linux and used it extensively to develop Photon. (In fact the "MDCUtil" tool for debugging Photon already supports Linux.) I'd love to add Linux support for the app if there's enough interest in this thing.
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Reasonable. I find anodizers are easy to find, good ones hard, and great ones almost impossible. I found a great one in Auburn and I feel lucky I did. Iirc you’re paying for the batch. If you pick a color they don’t do a lot, you’re paying the same for 1pc or 2000. The dye and handling is pretty much the same.
Interesting! I had the same experience with anodization, the quality between manufacturers varied a lot. So it sounds like you use different companies for machining and anodizing? It certainly seems like you'd get better results from someone that specializes in each...
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Saw it on EEVBlog, even owning a Mac is not sufficient if its not the latest OS version. SD Card doesnt store pictures in windows readable format either.
Dang I haven't mustered the courage to watch Dave's critique yet! I wrote/tested Photon Transfer (the companion app) on macOS 10.15 (Intel), so it should work on that and above. If not it's a bug that I need to fix!
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Saw it on EEVBlog, even owning a Mac is not sufficient if its not the latest OS version. SD Card doesnt store pictures in windows readable format either.
Dang I haven't mustered the courage to watch Dave's critique yet! I wrote/tested Photon Transfer (the companion app) on macOS 10.15 (Intel), so it should work on that and above. If not it's a bug that I need to fix!
Given the rate at which the data flows -- nothing at all for a long time, then a burst that isn't particularly time-sensitive, then nothing at all again for a while -- I wonder if the right way to do something like this is with LoRA. That way the camera could be mounted someplace hard to access, with no need for a file system at all. There would then be a separate receiver module that could listen for traffic from multiple cameras and store it for later access by a PC/Mac/whatever.
Love this - congrats Dave on the launch
Would this be suitable for strapping on a helmet to take a picture every (other) second on a bike ride and turn into a time lapse video afterwards?
I need to add support to the companion app to make exporting videos convenient though. Right now it only allows batch-exporting images.
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Looks like yes > capture photos at particular times or on certain dates, perfect for time-lapse photography With 50k photos on a single charge you could capture almost 28h of continuous 0.5fps video.
I was wondering about the weight which I couldn't find specified (although at that size it can't be much) and about ways that you could attach a strap to it.
I just put one on my kitchen scale: 70g.
I'm not interested in the product, but I have to say this site is great. Too many sites that get posted in Show HN are so difficult to decipher what service they provide or function they serve. This landing page is about as clear as you could be straight away: it's a small camera -> great battery life -> pricing (without going to another page!) -> Mac Only -> Buy/Download links. You provide use cases, your tech specs…
I'd put a real photo of the camera in the hero section so people instantly grok that it's a real device.