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

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Post by Zambyte »

latexr wrote: post #250
Zambyte wrote: post #249

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

ctrl+f "Exclusively for Mac". There is one hit (though there is another similar message that is not cursive).

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

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Post by jtriangle »

LiquidPolymer wrote: post #133

This looks really cool. I've made my living a photographer for over 30 years and I'm very tempted to purchase. This small form factor would be perfect for a project I'm doing documenting California condors rearing their young. Sadly, I would also need it to shoot video to be effective for my needs (and I'm sure this would kill the battery). Its one of these situations where I setup the camera system in November, and…

Just open the gopro and remove the beeper. Then connect it to a big external battery.

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

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Post by romanzubenko »

Amazing post, read through all blog posts in a single beat. I would be great to have a final blogpost on assembly process.

On a different note, it's mind-blowing that today one person today can do small scale design and manufacturing of a consumer electronics product. Super inspiring.

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

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Post by parag0n »

Thanks for putting in the effort and time into this cool project. My question is: How does your manufacturing process look like if someone decides to click the "buy" button and do you have any open orders currently?

Also do you actively use it currently on your bike or do you know some use cases of someone that bought/has it?

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

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Post by latexr »

walterbell wrote: post #26
Eric_WVGG wrote: post #7

so cool! For your next trick, how about a super long battery life MP3 player? A friend asked if I knew of an MP3 player that would be good for a two-week hike with no access to electricity, and it really seems like there's nothing out there beyond carrying around a bunch of batteries.

FiiO M3 Pro? https://www.amazon.com/FiiO-M3-Pro-Resolution-Touchscreen/dp... > 15 hours battery life and 35 days standby time: Adopt 1000 mAh high-capacity lithium-ion battery and USB-C charging technology. The M3 Pro has a battery life up to 15 hours and standby time up to 35 days. That means if you listen 3.5 hours every day, the M3 Pro can go for a whopping 1 week before needing to be charged again!

Fifteen hours is not enough for a two-week hike. That gives you one hour of listening per day, maximum.

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

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Post by flapjaxy »

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…

I'm not sure I follow the criticism here. Is the issue that a paid product only supports Mac, or an open source project didn't build for multiple OSs?

If it's the first; I've seen tons of Mac only software due to the perception that it's a more lucrative platform. (Users are price tolerant for good products).

If it's the last; scratch your own itch. Since it's open source you can write the softer yourself. I'm not sure if this outlook is the diy zeitgeist I grew up in, or just being old. I'm curious if this is still a common belief.

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

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Post by euniceee3 »

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.

I can customize the code for this project where I cant with a trail cam. I wish my $50 trail cam would do timelapse and motion detection at the same time. Really I want timelapsed phones and videos if motion detection.

Plus all the other reasons others said.

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

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Post by euniceee3 »

tromp wrote: post #17

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?

No. You need some motion smoothing for that too look good. At 3MP it does not have enough CCD to stablize and transcode into smooth pics.
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