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Re: Show HN: I made a tiny camera with super long battery life

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Post by azinman2 »

kaladin-jasnah wrote: post #230

I don't really understand why this has to be heavily marketed as Mac-only. As an open-source product, restricting the application to the most restricted of consumer operating systems (namely that any consumer hardware can run Linux or Windows, either bare metal or through a VM, whereas only Macs can easily run macOS) seems a bit sad. I had to read through the comments here to realize that as someone who doesn't own a…

What a weird bone to pick. You could say “would support for other platforms be on the horizon?” but instead you take it almost maliciously. This take is very compatible with what I’ve read about why people stop writing Linux commercial software: 95% of the support, 2% of the sales.

If it’s open and you want to create Linux / windows support, just do that versus complain that the creator of a $200 small scale device hasn’t.

Re: Show HN: I made a tiny camera with super long battery life

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Post by b3lvedere »

foehrenwald wrote: post #50

>USB-C >just as god intended ???

For He saw that his minions required a minimal of three frustrating attempts to connect devices, in all His wisdom He required a connector that worked in just one attempt. And He saw it was pretty ok.

Re: Show HN: I made a tiny camera with super long battery life

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Post by LeifCarrotson »

Rinzler89 wrote: post #56
tredre3 wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's pretty cool that your MSP handles the SD Card directly! Personally I think you should keep the focus on a polished mac app. For other platforms you can do just the bare minimum with a web app that uses WebUSB. People will bitch that it's Chromium only but, I mean, chromium has 95% market share outside Apple world (and I say this as a FF user). A hardware solution could be to add a cheap microcontroller that woul…

>It's pretty cool that your MSP handles the SD Card directly! SD cards aren't really black magic since they "speak" SPI, meaning people have been interfacing basic microcontrollers to them since forever.

They speak SPI, but it's a lot slower than SDIO. And there's a lot of work that goes into making an MMC or SD card (or SDHC or SDXC card) into a FAT16 or FAT32 or exFAT filesystem!

If I were doing this project, I'd use an STM32 with its built-in SDIO driver to implement most of the SD card stuff. ST's CubeIDE has easy-to-use filesystem driver that makes this transparent. Use the STM32 to read the card and manage a file for the FPGA to write the bitstream to, then when you plug into USB power, have the STM32 empty this linear file and copy the photos over to BMP images on the SD card. It would be slower, sure, but if you're only using it once a month or once a year, does that really matter? Plug it into USB, go to lunch, and come back to a properly-formatted SDXC card with an exFAT filesystem ready to have the images copied to whatever OS you want to use.

Re: Show HN: I made a tiny camera with super long battery life

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Post by kaladin-jasnah »

azinman2 wrote: post #241
kaladin-jasnah wrote: post #230

I don't really understand why this has to be heavily marketed as Mac-only. As an open-source product, restricting the application to the most restricted of consumer operating systems (namely that any consumer hardware can run Linux or Windows, either bare metal or through a VM, whereas only Macs can easily run macOS) seems a bit sad. I had to read through the comments here to realize that as someone who doesn't own a…

What a weird bone to pick. You could say “would support for other platforms be on the horizon?” but instead you take it almost maliciously. This take is very compatible with what I’ve read about why people stop writing Linux commercial software: 95% of the support, 2% of the sales. If it’s open and you want to create Linux / windows support, just do that versus complain that the creator of a $200 small scale device h…

When I read the page, it was implied that it's not possible to support other platforms or wouldn't be appreciated by the heavy Mac marketing. Now that I know more of the technical details of the product and seeing that it would definitely be possible to add Windows/Linux support, I am more inclined to buy it and write software for it myself, and I think it would be good to include that on the page more.

Something like "Open hardware/software means that the community could write Linux/Windows support" and a link to the tool that the author said could be used to transfer files on Linux: https://github.com/toasterllc/MDCCode/blob/rev10/Tools/MDCUt... somewhere more prominent on the page would be helpful, as this was not clear to me until I read the comments here.

Re: Show HN: I made a tiny camera with super long battery life

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Post by ImPostingOnHN »

azinman2 wrote: post #241
kaladin-jasnah wrote: post #230

I don't really understand why this has to be heavily marketed as Mac-only. As an open-source product, restricting the application to the most restricted of consumer operating systems (namely that any consumer hardware can run Linux or Windows, either bare metal or through a VM, whereas only Macs can easily run macOS) seems a bit sad. I had to read through the comments here to realize that as someone who doesn't own a…

What a weird bone to pick. You could say “would support for other platforms be on the horizon?” but instead you take it almost maliciously. This take is very compatible with what I’ve read about why people stop writing Linux commercial software: 95% of the support, 2% of the sales. If it’s open and you want to create Linux / windows support, just do that versus complain that the creator of a $200 small scale device h…

I did not interpret their post in as rude a manner as you portray it (their feedback is on point, so thanks kaladin-jasnah), but your characterization of their post as "weird" and 'a bone to pick' and 'almost malicious' and 'complaining' is itself multiple-times rude.

Is there a connection between you and the subject matter that might have caused you to interpret the post in a less charitable way than others?

Re: Show HN: I made a tiny camera with super long battery life

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Post by azinman2 »

This looks exceptionally cool. Thank you for writing an excellent Mac app - forget the rest of the hate here.

Do you think this would be appropriate for turning into a long form video? I’m imagining seeing videos of my boys growing and playing where I just periodically dump the camera and eventually sitch it as frames into a movie.

Anyway to know when it’s about to write over itself in storage?

Re: Show HN: I made a tiny camera with super long battery life

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Post by dsalzman »

whatahw wrote: post #231

What is the use case? Trail cameras already do this and they cost $50 instead of $200 with better photo quality and better motion sensing. Oh and they take video too.

Trail cameras are much larger. So if size is a restraint this could be better, but valid point. Most trail cameras use 8x AA batteries!

Re: Show HN: I made a tiny camera with super long battery life

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Post by azinman2 »

ImPostingOnHN wrote: post #245
azinman2 wrote: post #241

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What a weird bone to pick. You could say “would support for other platforms be on the horizon?” but instead you take it almost maliciously. This take is very compatible with what I’ve read about why people stop writing Linux commercial software: 95% of the support, 2% of the sales. If it’s open and you want to create Linux / windows support, just do that versus complain that the creator of a $200 small scale device h…

I did not interpret their post in as rude a manner as you portray it (their feedback is on point, so thanks kaladin-jasnah ), but your characterization of their post as "weird" and 'a bone to pick' and 'almost malicious' and 'complaining' is itself multiple-times rude. Is there a connection between you and the subject matter that might have caused you to interpret the post in a less charitable way than others?

I never said rude, and maybe I was less charitable than I should have been with malicious. But reading that comment and all of the others here that mirror it there is a kind of almost malicious assumption, or at least a very non understanding dismissal of the choice.

Re: Show HN: I made a tiny camera with super long battery life

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Post by Zambyte »

azinman2 wrote: post #241
kaladin-jasnah wrote: post #230

I don't really understand why this has to be heavily marketed as Mac-only. As an open-source product, restricting the application to the most restricted of consumer operating systems (namely that any consumer hardware can run Linux or Windows, either bare metal or through a VM, whereas only Macs can easily run macOS) seems a bit sad. I had to read through the comments here to realize that as someone who doesn't own a…

What a weird bone to pick. You could say “would support for other platforms be on the horizon?” but instead you take it almost maliciously. This take is very compatible with what I’ve read about why people stop writing Linux commercial software: 95% of the support, 2% of the sales. If it’s open and you want to create Linux / windows support, just do that versus complain that the creator of a $200 small scale device h…

There is a pretty big gap between the narrative in the post here: "only supports macOS currently", and what the website says: "Exclusively for Mac" in a Just Girly Things cursive font. The latter makes it sound like they'd reject support if someone handed to them on a silver MR shaped platter.

Re: Show HN: I made a tiny camera with super long battery life

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Post by latexr »

Zambyte wrote: post #249
azinman2 wrote: post #241

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What a weird bone to pick. You could say “would support for other platforms be on the horizon?” but instead you take it almost maliciously. This take is very compatible with what I’ve read about why people stop writing Linux commercial software: 95% of the support, 2% of the sales. If it’s open and you want to create Linux / windows support, just do that versus complain that the creator of a $200 small scale device h…

There is a pretty big gap between the narrative in the post here: "only supports macOS currently", and what the website says: "Exclusively for Mac" in a Just Girly Things cursive font. The latter makes it sound like they'd reject support if someone handed to them on a silver MR shaped platter.

> in a Just Girly Things cursive font.

The font isn’t cursive. It’s exactly the same as every other section.

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