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Axiom Open Source Camera Handily Tops 100,000 Euro Fundraising Goal

Posted by timothy on from the magic-lantern-on-board-now-too dept.

The Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign for an open-hardware cinema camera has closed far in the black, though the project continues to accept contributions. The Axiom's designers raised enough (€174,520, topping their €100,000 goal) to fund development of their stretch goals (remote control, active lens mount, active battery mount), and then some. If it actually gets built and catches on, it will be interesting to see what custom modules users come up with.

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  1. It will never get built ... by janoc · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Oh and check out their team - "new media artistst", "filmmaker", "3D artist", "software developer" ... I don't see any electrical engineers, FPGA/signal processing experts, mechanical engineers ... Who is actually going to BUILD this camera?

    This looks very much like CLANG (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/260688528/clang) 2.0 ...

  2. Re:It will never get built ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    >Going to an assembly house with less than a million in budget? Forget it, they won't even speak to you.
    >
    >That leaves assembling these cameras in a garage, by hand. Which means soldering those nasty BGA by hand - good bye any reasonable yield, not to mention that those chips aren't exactly cheap.

    That's flat our ridiculous.

    Maybe you don't work in Silicon Valley but even you don't, you should know that's ridiculous.

    Small companies routinely run 10, 20, 30 boards at assembly houses. It would be impossible for small companies to exist if it were not the case. There's a whole industry set up to serve these needs.

    Engineering groups in major corporations use these assembly houses.

    Don't believe me? Ask the google gods,

    https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=pcb%20assembly%20service