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

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Комментарии • 2 тыс.

  • @Beredro
    @Beredro 4 года назад +3401

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

    • @RobotN001
      @RobotN001 4 года назад +106

      cuz regular camera is microchipped by CIA, and a pic of Bigfoot or an UFO just disappeared while processed !!!

    • @jaysanchez4407
      @jaysanchez4407 4 года назад +40

      @@RobotN001 bro most camera companies aren't even American, ain't no foreign company letting the CIA get involved in their products

    • @another1commenter770
      @another1commenter770 4 года назад +34

      Dont forget bank CCTV footage

    • @stoneswamp
      @stoneswamp 4 года назад +6

      Will 93 that’s just what they want you to think

    • @rickysingh616
      @rickysingh616 4 года назад +1

      😂😂😂

  • @ewncilo
    @ewncilo 4 года назад +6

    I can not believe you had some form of success attempting to do something of this magnitude, not even the best, niether the most dedicated amount us will not continue trying to make something like this. You are absolutly amazing.

  • @igorgiuseppe1862
    @igorgiuseppe1862 3 года назад

    32x32 , 0.2 frames per second...
    great!
    i was curious to know what i can do at home, and now i know, it much better than what i expected!
    this looks like the perfect project to make coupled with "The world's worst video card"
    and the best part is:
    0 nsa backdoors

  • @ElliutN
    @ElliutN 3 года назад

    I have a new found respect for this technology....

  • @Notstoned_BS
    @Notstoned_BS 3 года назад

    It shows how advanced our mobile phone cameras are

  • @mrkat547
    @mrkat547 3 года назад

    the shutter takes 5 secs so you dont wanna touch it he says it might get blurry lines he says.... but this is really awesome

  • @stay_at_home_astronaut
    @stay_at_home_astronaut 3 года назад

    Great project

  • @DesignScripter
    @DesignScripter 3 года назад +1

    I have a color scanner project, can we work with you on this? The scanner will scan in color. it will be like sean hodgins' image sensor or a4 scanner.

  • @TomaszDurlej
    @TomaszDurlej 4 года назад

    If you do some day large format (like wall) you will be pretty famous artist.

  • @fakeone8936
    @fakeone8936 3 года назад +1

    I need one to take pictures of ufos.

  • @joseleonuno
    @joseleonuno 2 года назад +1

    Dude, you are cool.

  • @robinsonbruginski3747
    @robinsonbruginski3747 3 года назад

    A few FPGAs some RAM and you can make a >1mhz 32x32 camera, that would be impressive and useful. you already have more than half of it.

    • @SeanHodgins
      @SeanHodgins  3 года назад

      I need to redesign the actual circuitry for the sensors because switching the MUX to fast causes interference. The microcontroller isn't the bottle neck. Working on a new solution.

    • @robinsonbruginski3747
      @robinsonbruginski3747 3 года назад

      @@SeanHodgins Yeah, but for fastest speed you will need an ADC with buffer per pixel or line, because your sensor can work with Mhz range like a ultraspeed camera. instead of mux you can try pull-up/down only one pixel in the line but capacitances will be a problem.

  • @calebkirschbaum8158
    @calebkirschbaum8158 4 года назад

    If you had it take a 1000 pictures, could it combine them in some way to raise the quality?

  • @sjoerdkok5114
    @sjoerdkok5114 Год назад

    very cool! Can it do astrophotography tho?

  • @captaincalifornia3358
    @captaincalifornia3358 3 года назад

    Now put that behind a phone screen using the screen as lightsource.

  • @tannuperveen3900
    @tannuperveen3900 4 года назад +1

    it is very cool

  • @97910466xx
    @97910466xx 4 года назад

    Its pretty cool. Why dont u add some sony sensor or old sensor and make own 70mm camera and take high quality pictures. I dont know. But i had this idea

  • @LloydLynx
    @LloydLynx 4 года назад +1

    Now run it through that upscaling AI, I forget what it's called.

    • @JaaoPonte
      @JaaoPonte 4 года назад

      this could be a great project/improvement

    • @hexadcml
      @hexadcml 4 года назад

      waifu2x

  • @tomdchi12
    @tomdchi12 4 года назад +1583

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

    • @rkan2
      @rkan2 4 года назад +13

      Just make it a global shutter sensor ;) Such cameras aren't even that expensive when you consider industrial cameras.

    • @geor664
      @geor664 4 года назад +1

      @rkan2 , Thomas thinks he is a comedian.

    • @BigBoss-gb4cx
      @BigBoss-gb4cx 4 года назад +17

      *" but maybe that's just me "
      " for me it's a must to have at least 3 SD card slots and 7 axis 4D image stabilization" .

    • @rkan2
      @rkan2 4 года назад +1

      @Matheus Pedrosa de Souza Based on what? I bought a 1200p global shutter camera that fits in my palm for ~150€ What are you talking about? Yes, global shutter cameras require more "wiring" and more power, and thus can also heat up a lot more.. but very difficult? meh

  • @SeanHodgins
    @SeanHodgins  4 года назад +1350

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

    • @tsraikage
      @tsraikage 4 года назад +97

      you need to add color to it. its easy to do, very easy tbh, i wrote a comment about it. i would love to see it ♥️

    • @vilmondesribeiro4363
      @vilmondesribeiro4363 4 года назад +19

      I think that it will be another level of hard work.

    • @cherif-k3
      @cherif-k3 4 года назад +4

      would be great!

    • @benarthur3517
      @benarthur3517 4 года назад +31

      SeanHodgins how about a thermal version? What’s the smallest PIR (or similar) component you can buy?

    • @Cryohh
      @Cryohh 4 года назад +5

      @@benarthur3517 I believe with old digital cameras you just have to take a filter off of the sensor, there's videos on YT. But yeah that'd be dope

  • @DaveyJohnMorris
    @DaveyJohnMorris 3 года назад +564

    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.

    • @ravbin86
      @ravbin86 Год назад +80

      That's how remote monochrome astrophotography setups work

    • @WindowsDrawer
      @WindowsDrawer Год назад +75

      You could also have a motor that would rotate the camera by a slight amount like 3 times horizontally and 3 times vertically to get a 9x better resolution photo

    • @ExploringNew1
      @ExploringNew1 Год назад +15

      That's how JWST and most telescopes work

    • @SongZee
      @SongZee 11 месяцев назад +10

      I used this technique to scan some old film negatives using a scanner and my phone screen as the r/g/b light source and then combined the 3 scans in photoshop. Fun but time consuming :D

    • @datpudding5338
      @datpudding5338 11 месяцев назад

      You call them remote but my laptop and me are right next to it in the field :p
      @@ravbin86

  • @leovbernardo
    @leovbernardo 4 года назад +257

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

    • @nikostalk5730
      @nikostalk5730 Год назад +11

      iphone users:
      oh, my iphone 2g got 20 more pixels!

    • @sola_is_chilling
      @sola_is_chilling 11 месяцев назад

      ​​@@nikostalk5730its so much better than androids... 8k resolution... 1020 pixels total is so good! Cutting edge tech by tim apple!

    • @Artem4egg_
      @Artem4egg_ 10 месяцев назад

      ​@@nikostalk5730..just what is thst supposed to mean or make fun of

  • @azyfloof
    @azyfloof 4 года назад +452

    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

    • @SeanHodgins
      @SeanHodgins  4 года назад +66

      I think that would be needed for sure!

    • @azyfloof
      @azyfloof 4 года назад +9

      @@SeanHodgins Can't wait to see what you do!
      This is an amazing idea :D I wonder how well it would work with manual SLR lenses and an adaptor ring? You could change out lenses on the fly, seeing as they rely on fixed focal plane distances :)

    • @TheNewton
      @TheNewton 4 года назад +13

      With a buffer if there was motion/accelerometer sensors along with a fast enough exposure would it be possible to emulate higher resolutions by moving the camera and stitching in post like a panorama?

    • @EgonSorensen
      @EgonSorensen 4 года назад +8

      I would suggest a different hardware setup, utilizing 'dual co-processors' for reliable fast data transfer.
      beagleboard.org/pru
      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeagleBoard#BeagleBone_Black
      Unfortunately Arduino won't compile code, you'll have to learn assembly (which you might anyways, if you want a stable reliable transfer - without interrupts from the bootloader, etc)
      To save on those costly light sensors, and make things more complex - it is possible to use LED's as light sensors: wiki.analog.com/university/courses/electronics/electronics-lab-led-sensor

    • @excitedbox5705
      @excitedbox5705 4 года назад +14

      @@SeanHodgins The ESP32 has 4 ADCs and up to 20 channels. Split your photo cells into groups and run them on different ADCs. It will be much cheaper too because the ESP32 costs a couple dollars and you can use a few cheap 8:1 or 16:1 MUX chips. The ESP32 can run up to 240Mhz and has 2 cores. Much faster than an Arduino.

  • @roldha9316
    @roldha9316 4 года назад +745

    Still better image quality than security cameras.

    • @kirkc9643
      @kirkc9643 3 года назад +38

      and the ones people use to take pix of UFOs

    • @vladthe_cat
      @vladthe_cat 3 года назад +5

      You right

    • @holycogs2706
      @holycogs2706 3 года назад +3

      Security cameras working 24/7 they don't need high resolution. Do you realize, how much memory it is need to store high quality video?

    • @holycogs2706
      @holycogs2706 3 года назад +3

      Also there is a cameras that work in high quality, but with moving sensor's, or light sensors, etc.

    • @getrektboy
      @getrektboy 2 года назад +3

      @@holycogs2706 its a joke

  • @mikeselectricstuff
    @mikeselectricstuff 4 года назад +156

    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.

    • @SeanHodgins
      @SeanHodgins  4 года назад +28

      I definitely do. Have any recommendations? I don't normally do huge component heavy projects like this, and this one was done this way so I could literally say "I built a digital camera by hand!". But I have a friend with a pick and place if things get any bigger.

  • @TheDarknessConsumesMe666
    @TheDarknessConsumesMe666 4 года назад +289

    1:49 "Isn't it amazing how the details come back?"
    Ah yes, I can see everything so clear

    • @SeanHodgins
      @SeanHodgins  4 года назад +25

      haha

    • @albertllubitmusic
      @albertllubitmusic 3 года назад +7

      It's for person with clear eyes sight like me, not for you.

    • @CyanDumBell_MC
      @CyanDumBell_MC 3 года назад +5

      Or someone with big screen

    • @phs125
      @phs125 3 года назад +8

      Me looking at the white dot in the middle : ah yes

    • @Artem4egg_
      @Artem4egg_ 10 месяцев назад

      ​@@albertllubitmusicr/iamverycool

  • @maciejd7823
    @maciejd7823 4 года назад +52

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

  • @alperenerol1852
    @alperenerol1852 4 года назад +632

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

    • @SeanHodgins
      @SeanHodgins  4 года назад +63

      Baby steps!

    • @rockascreen1109
      @rockascreen1109 4 года назад +22

      1000 pixels made at home for fun, flying cars are coming soon as well...

    • @alexkuhn5078
      @alexkuhn5078 4 года назад +14

      even funnier, the experimental televisions of the 1920s were roughly this same resolution

    • @mmddyyyy-his
      @mmddyyyy-his 3 года назад +6

      i don't know why people still need a flying car in 2020, we already have helicopter, elon musk says flying car would be horrific, it's not environmental friendly

    • @NathanBaerreis
      @NathanBaerreis 3 года назад +6

      I'd rather have universal low cost mass transit than a flying car

  • @ZoolanderSkytower
    @ZoolanderSkytower 4 года назад +75

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

  • @morganallen2272
    @morganallen2272 4 года назад +225

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

    • @c4ooo
      @c4ooo 4 года назад +15

      You could probobly do it pretty easily with binary counters and ram chips

    • @0xbenedikt
      @0xbenedikt 4 года назад +7

      Or just use a better microcontroller... and a better screen ;-)

    • @cheaterman49
      @cheaterman49 4 года назад +12

      Exactly what Benedikt says, maybe a single ESP32 plus actual multiplexers (that will react in a matter of nanoseconds rather than milliseconds like the ATmega chips would)

    • @Kalvinjj
      @Kalvinjj 4 года назад +11

      Parallel capture of the 32 cells in a column/row and then change to next would do wonders already, could almost/possibly even do motion

    • @c4ooo
      @c4ooo 4 года назад +2

      @@0xbenedikt WAIT Benedict I know you dont I ;)

  • @r4yker442
    @r4yker442 4 года назад +59

    My heart rate is increasing everytime he touches the sensor with his nail

  • @wawa1474
    @wawa1474 4 года назад +274

    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.

    • @jkenny1
      @jkenny1 4 года назад +37

      Or he could just make a Bayer array with the camera he's already got, use colored sharpies to color over the photodetectors. It would lose a little sensitivity but theoretically retain the same spatial resolution and add color.

    • @stabilini
      @stabilini 4 года назад +11

      That’s how 8-bit guy did it with a b&w webcam

    • @wawa1474
      @wawa1474 4 года назад +1

      @@stabilini Exactly, this would just be a lower resolution version of what he did.

    • @miigon9117
      @miigon9117 4 года назад +1

      jkenny1 Good idea! Maybe tiny pieces of filters(if can be found) will work better than sharpies?
      Also I could already imagine the resolution suffering😄

    • @sammyflorczak8800
      @sammyflorczak8800 4 года назад +8

      ​@@jkenny1He'd lose a 3rd of the resolution once he demosaics though.

  • @MartinZeman3D
    @MartinZeman3D 4 года назад +84

    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! :)

  • @burungbaguette
    @burungbaguette 4 года назад +64

    This is the camera them UFO spotters are using

    • @definesigint2823
      @definesigint2823 4 года назад +2

      Now shipping with the 'auto shake' image destabilizer for the historically-accurate, authentic feel.

  • @Ramash440
    @Ramash440 4 года назад +44

    So basically you've made the world's lowest resolution Hasselblad.

    • @mostlymessingabout
      @mostlymessingabout 3 года назад +2

      Hassleblad is just an overpriced medium format camera... nothing special

    • @Ramash440
      @Ramash440 3 года назад +1

      @@mostlymessingabout Overpriced, yes, but still nothing to scoff at. You get what you pay for and they're extremely good cameras ... just that the quality difference between a $200 and a $2000 camera isn't really worth it if you're just a random hobbyist. Think of it as a Leica M. Great camera, but not worth it if you're not a professional photographer or swimming in money.

  • @rubiskelter
    @rubiskelter 3 года назад +75

    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.

    • @nikostalk5730
      @nikostalk5730 Год назад

      i don't get, why to do this kind of useless project.
      If you doing this to understand some kind of scientific research - is ok.
      But doing this only to get views on a RUclips, it's like BRUH.
      It's not about talking about bad or good things, but
      We ALREADY having a good amount of old tech, which works better than this diy
      Like, bro, people did much greater amount to produce their little stuff, to work ok
      and one man from youtube, be like "hey, i did a camera from 19 century on a kid's circuitry with 3d print"
      i don't get this point of using materials to get useless stuff, bro, u wasting a usable materials.

    • @DowneyMax
      @DowneyMax Год назад

      ​@@nikostalk5730You don't get hobbies

    • @jerbear7952
      @jerbear7952 11 месяцев назад

      Why do you care how others perceive it? Why not just say you appreciate it?

    • @rubiskelter
      @rubiskelter 11 месяцев назад

      @@jerbear7952 because it means he gets views , likes, recognition , and gets to keep building things, hopefully. Why you're replying to me? Why can't you just fvck off and mind your own business? This is a 2 year old comment you duche

    • @gordonwelcher9598
      @gordonwelcher9598 11 месяцев назад

      Get rid of stupid music

  • @proghostzgamecreed6555
    @proghostzgamecreed6555 4 года назад +43

    2050: we are going to make gopro sized dslr using arduino

  • @wizardOfRobots
    @wizardOfRobots 4 года назад +37

    If the mux was for this project...i wonder what *this* is really for...

    • @SeanHodgins
      @SeanHodgins  4 года назад +10

      :D I like your way of thinking... hahaha

  • @bufferboy64
    @bufferboy64 4 года назад +19

    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.

    • @rishivallem
      @rishivallem 11 месяцев назад +10

      This is basically how panoramas are stitched

    • @Fennecbutt
      @Fennecbutt 10 месяцев назад

      Or just do what Sony does with IBIS, but shifting the sensor slightly in x, y directions they take multiple shots offset and combine them to give you a super resolution one.

    • @jnharton
      @jnharton 10 месяцев назад

      @@FennecbuttYou could achieve similar results with a complex optical assembly that basically redirects the light onto your sensor.

  • @lucysluckyday
    @lucysluckyday 3 года назад +10

    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!

  • @MCSteve_
    @MCSteve_ 4 года назад +53

    You can get a colored image by taking three images under different color filters and combining it in post.

    • @DesignScripter
      @DesignScripter 3 года назад

      do you know how to do it? I have a project about it. please contact me. tubbiya@hotmail.com

    • @MCSteve_
      @MCSteve_ 3 года назад

      @@DesignScripter
      This video should get it across
      ruclips.net/video/a-ny3geJ-nk/видео.html

    • @duskesko
      @duskesko 2 года назад +4

      So a fifteen second shutter instead of five with clicks every five seconds when a servo switches filters. I LOVE IT. Do it.

  • @UnboxingTVofficial
    @UnboxingTVofficial 4 года назад +117

    5:51 "OLED LCD" doesn't make any sense, these are two completely different technologies.

    • @SeanHodgins
      @SeanHodgins  4 года назад +65

      Oops.

    • @trotskiftw
      @trotskiftw 4 года назад +30

      well done smartass, it’s clear that he’s accidentally used LCD in place of the word “screen” or the like. Just because it’s literal form doesn’t make sense doesn’t mean it isn’t obvious what he’s trying to say.

    • @scenicdepictionsofchicagolife
      @scenicdepictionsofchicagolife 4 года назад +31

      Seems like an innocent mistake.. considering this guy is likely an expert in pixel technology I'm 100 percent sure he knows better than any of us here the difference between OLED and LCD... And that's saying a lot considering I used to be a sales rep for LG Display. I could never imagine building my own.m working digital camera sensor.

    • @mineapple8612
      @mineapple8612 4 года назад +16

      @@trotskiftw just because something seems obvious, doesn't mean, it's right or it shouldn't be corrected. Some don't know that it's wrong or get confused by the fault, so it's legitimate to correct someone's mistake.

    • @mansirrabiu7412
      @mansirrabiu7412 4 года назад

      @@scenicdepictionsofchicagolife you're really good.

  • @aracrg
    @aracrg 4 года назад +19

    Instead of photo cells (expensive), do you think reverse biased LEDs would work?

    • @SeanHodgins
      @SeanHodgins  4 года назад +6

      Not sure but definite worth a try!

    • @mibnsharpals
      @mibnsharpals 4 года назад +3

      youe it would work, but with very low sensivity ... use better phototransistors , your noiseratio will be much more better.

  • @mystcat3
    @mystcat3 4 года назад +5

    I wanna make this camera for my Minecraft resourcepack, i have a potato instead of a pc, so max resolution is 32x32 xD

  • @snik2pl
    @snik2pl 4 года назад +26

    You could double the resolution by moving sensor array in x and then y and back x dirrection by half of pixel sensor space. You would get 4 images interlanced image.

    • @TheLaserProduct
      @TheLaserProduct 4 года назад +1

      "Superresolution"

    • @thethoeby
      @thethoeby 4 года назад +1

      +the colorwheel idea and then stitch multiple images together to get a "high-res" shot.

  • @bastiannenke7101
    @bastiannenke7101 4 года назад +13

    Now add it to a 2D cnc, make a picture, move it and make another. Repeat until you can stitch a big image together.

  • @blotafton
    @blotafton 4 года назад +17

    Very cool!
    For a lens I'd recommend a projection lens from an old still image projector. Cheaper and better but probably doesn't matter at this resolution.

    • @SeanHodgins
      @SeanHodgins  4 года назад +4

      Thats a great idea! I see those in flea markets all the time. Also a regular old digital projector would probably work great too.

  • @Kamikrazey
    @Kamikrazey 4 года назад +8

    looks about the same quality as most security cameras

  • @GarethPW
    @GarethPW 4 года назад +7

    Awesome video! Would have been cool to see three colour-filtered shots combined in Photoshop to make a colour image.

  • @spambot7110
    @spambot7110 4 года назад +81

    5:48 "OLED LCD" 🤔🤔🤔

    • @orafaball2162
      @orafaball2162 4 года назад

      Yes... its a oled lcd

    • @Damicske
      @Damicske 4 года назад +9

      @@orafaball2162 no its a oled screen, not LCD. LCD stands for Liquid Crystal Display
      SeanHodgins: real time preview on the oled was not an option or not enough time?

    • @smoke4131
      @smoke4131 4 года назад +3

      Maybe hu meant oled display ?!

    • @flyeren35
      @flyeren35 4 года назад +5

      @D2RG6 Totally pointless...

    • @aviralrastogi
      @aviralrastogi 4 года назад +1

      He used the word 'LCD' to mean display.

  • @RD5500
    @RD5500 4 года назад +11

    You should try using an old medium format lens for the next version. It has a bigger sensor coverage so you dont really have to disassemble it and just make a mount on the camera according to the lens mount

  • @aidanjarosgrilli
    @aidanjarosgrilli 4 года назад +13

    You should try a colour image with 3 coloured filters
    Red green and blue
    Stack them in photoshop

    • @50t5
      @50t5 4 года назад +3

      They don't have to be filters i think. Maybe you could make the addon light but with RGB and use just pure red, green and blue light to take the pictures?

    • @0xbenedikt
      @0xbenedikt 4 года назад +1

      @@50t5 But then you would have to take the photo in a really dark room

    • @50t5
      @50t5 4 года назад

      @@0xbenedikt true, that's the negative side of that.

    • @userPrehistoricman
      @userPrehistoricman 4 года назад

      THIS and take some outdoor pictures with those

  • @teaismylife247
    @teaismylife247 2 месяца назад +1

    Hi I am insterested in this for scientific applications. I want to rapidly log a matrix of signals from separate probes, then reproduce that data as a video image/heatmap. I'm fairly confident I can do the video/heatmap part in matlab once I have the data recorded. But I have no idea where to start with the hardware. I think what I need is basically exactly the same as what you've done here. Did you buy this PCB or design it yourself? how does it connect to a computer? What FPS can it do? I need something that is as off-the-shelf as possible because I am a chemical engineer, not a electronic or software engineer. I literally don't have time to try and do this by myself but I know there must be an easier way than what I'm doing now.

  • @Xenthera
    @Xenthera 4 года назад +12

    You should build a machine that can build an image sensor much smaller...

  • @stephen_hawes
    @stephen_hawes 4 года назад +20

    Dude, you're an absolute legend. This is beyond cool!

  • @DEtchells
    @DEtchells 4 года назад +18

    How absolutely, totally cool!! Here’s an idea for extra-credit hacking: Some high-digital cameras from Olympus, Panasonic, Pentax and Sony have so-called “pixel shift” high resolution modes. They use the image stabilization system to move the sensor in sub-pixel increments between exposures, and then combine a number of shots (varying numbers, but 8 shots comes to mind as typical) into a single, higher-resolution image. I don’t know what the resolution of the Shapeoko is, or you could keep the camera absolutely parallel (zero pitch or yaw relative to the lens axis), but maybe you could manage the same trick with your camera.
    AH! *much* easier, though, would be to move the camera distances close to its field of view, take multiple shots with overlap between images and then stitch the individual shots together into single larger one. I don’t know how well it would work with so few pixels, but Photoshop’s “align layers” function does this. You’d need to do it with a subject relatively close to the camera (as opposed to an outdoor landscape, for instance), because pure x-y movement would move the area being imaged by exactly the amount of the camera movement. But doing this, you could potentially (albeit with loads of patience) make 1 megapixel images with your 1 kilopixel camera. That might be a bit extreme, you’d probably need 2000 sub-images to do that, to have enough overlap. But I bet you could make a VGA (640x480) or QVGA (320x160) image relatively easily :-)

    • @SeanHodgins
      @SeanHodgins  4 года назад +4

      Thats a lot of food for thought! Originally I was entertaining the idea of moving a single pixel along an XY plane to make an "infinite" pixel grid, but decided against it. Love the idea of moving the whole sensor just a small amount. I bet that would be way easier too, and possible to use the current hardware. I think I would need some help in the software side of things, but it would be really cool. I'm definitely going to look into that.

    • @TheNewton
      @TheNewton 4 года назад

      Dave Etchells thanks! for the information and the term "pixel shift high resolution" exactly what I was wondering if possible

    • @DEtchells
      @DEtchells 4 года назад +1

      ​@@SeanHodgins - I bet there's a clever way to do it in Photoshop with masks, although it might be a major PITA to make the mask that'd select the right pixels to merge. (I'm thinking rez-up each individual image to the final size using nearest-neighbor resampling, then have a mask that'd select one pixel out of each 2x2, 3x3, 4x4 or whatever grid depending on how many samples you were dealing with, shift that mask to the appropriate position for each sub-image and successively merge the images through the mask to assemble the final image.)
      It'd be easy to write a program to merge files for someone who knew Python (for example) and what image file formats look like. Maybe another viewer here will see this and jump in to help?
      Pixel-shift high res can be tricky to do in digital cameras if you're aiming for more actual pixels in the final image. Sometimes they do it just to overcome the detail loss associated with demosaicing the RGB color filter array, stacking red green and blue raw pixels up on top of each other, and that's relatively straightforward. It gets more difficult when you're trying to extract what amounts to sub-pixel information.
      The gaps between photodiodes in your camera are actually an advantage, because you won't have actual image data overlapping if you just shift so as to sample in between the diode positions of the first shot. I'd imagine you could do a 2x2 sample with no overlap at all. (You can sample with overlap, but beyond a point you won't get any more resolution without some image processing. But 2x2 should be easy.)
      (Yeesh, blah, blah, blah, hope this was at least a little bit helpful :-0)

    • @suryawarior
      @suryawarior 4 года назад

      Hmmm i think manual photoshoping each one is little bit too hard, why not use matrix instead?,like move alot then broke 32x32 matrix into spaced higher matrix like 640x320, But i think thats need an sbc to handle so much data. Hehe just little thought from third country student

    • @rkan2
      @rkan2 4 года назад

      Maybe just attach the image sensor to some servo and throw it around the camera body?

  • @BigOlSmellyFlashlight
    @BigOlSmellyFlashlight 4 года назад +10

    me: **comes to comments expecting "why isn't the screen used as a viewfinder"**
    the comments: "'oled lcd'"

  • @LunaWuna
    @LunaWuna 4 года назад +2

    Try putting a red, green and blue filter and merge te images to get a colour photo.

  • @JonS
    @JonS 4 года назад +17

    I've been working in digital imaging since the mid-90s, and now lead an engineering group at a very well known camera company. I have to congratulate you on a very cool project! Nicely done!
    I could see lots of ways of improving the performance of this camera, but what's the point? The objective isn't to build something that compares with the state-of-the-art in cameras, so embarking down the road of making enhancements (apart from maybe a color filter wheel!) seems like a waste of time (and there lies madness).
    What would be really cool would be to turn this in to an educational kit (probably with the soldering already done). A ScratchX version would be amazing.
    At work we have a bring your kids to work day, where we try to give employees' kids a flavor of what designing and building cameras is like. Putting together a kit version of this project would be a great activity for the teens. One that would teach them the fundamentals of camera hardware.

    • @rkan2
      @rkan2 4 года назад

      I say buy some ON Semi / Sony sensors and slap some ADCs on it and make an industrial camera of sorts :P

    • @JonS
      @JonS 4 года назад

      rkan2 No external ADCs needed on modern CMOS sensors. They are on-chip.
      In any case, there would be no fun (and lower educational value) using off the shelf image sensors. I worked for ON Semi (well, Aptina which was then bought by ON Semi) for 6 years, and since then have been working with Sony sensors on a daily basis.

    • @DisturbedVette
      @DisturbedVette 4 года назад

      It puzzles me that someone like you finds the time to watch RUclips

    • @JonS
      @JonS 4 года назад

      reaper. I barely do. Especially with two young kids!

    • @rkan2
      @rkan2 4 года назад

      @@pandasinspace3560 It doesn't take a lot of googling...

  • @togusa75
    @togusa75 4 года назад +9

    I wonder what kind of upscaling you would get by merging multiple exposures with a bit of sensor-shifting.

    • @SeanHodgins
      @SeanHodgins  4 года назад +2

      Worth a try!

    • @GeorgeTsiros
      @GeorgeTsiros 2 года назад

      @@SeanHodgins there are existing algorithms for this. even our eyes do this to increase resolution, by vibrating like crazy all the time.
      if you place the sensor on a tilting mechanism you can get much higher resolution by sampling once, tilting the image a _tiny_ (really tiny, must be half the angle each pixel represents) angle on one axis and measure the _difference_ between successive pixels.
      my description is silly, but i'm sure you get the idea.

  • @24ecko
    @24ecko 4 года назад +38

    This makes me appreciate my phone's 40mp camera lol.

    • @sh0bez
      @sh0bez 4 года назад +1

      Holy shit, how did you make an 40mp camera?!?

    • @matthew3p
      @matthew3p 4 года назад +3

      Sh0bez huawei p30 pro

    • @24ecko
      @24ecko 4 года назад +1

      @@matthew3p Yup!

    • @Retronyx
      @Retronyx 4 года назад

      108mp from samsung be like " I'm you but better"

    • @24ecko
      @24ecko 4 года назад

      @@Retronyx but is it? This Samsung vs Sony we're taking about lol. Sony has more experience with camera sensors.

  • @stabilini
    @stabilini 4 года назад +13

    8:04 so that’s how they pictured mars face

    • @ryanisacuc8381
      @ryanisacuc8381 3 года назад

      No this is how they blurred the mars face.

  • @poopfromcat7920
    @poopfromcat7920 4 года назад +4

    Instagram pictures looking too good? Tired of making everyone jealous with your gorgeous looks? Use this product and jump back in time as your face resembles what it did back in the 00’s!!!

  • @KamranQasimovDeirvlon
    @KamranQasimovDeirvlon 4 года назад +4

    You can capture RGB images with this project. All you need to do, add 3 color filters (Red, Green, Blue) and do the same process 3 times. At the end you will get 3 images , 1 for Red color in the image, 1 for Green and 1 for Blue. Add this pictures to together to form 1 Colored image )

  • @alexocurance3951
    @alexocurance3951 4 года назад +5

    You can actually use AI topaz gigapixel and upscale the image with AI algorithms would be nice to see that

  • @Rhidayah
    @Rhidayah 3 года назад +2

    Everyone gangsta until mask open his mouth

  • @anonanon3066
    @anonanon3066 3 года назад +1

    What would be awesome:
    Run these images through a few artificial intelligences!
    Like, a pipeline like this:
    AI-Upscale -> AI-Upscaler -> AI-Upscaler -> AI-Colorizer

  • @JulienCope
    @JulienCope 4 года назад +7

    AWESOME! Maybe a good time to mod the 3d printer into a pick and place machine

    • @SeanHodgins
      @SeanHodgins  4 года назад +3

      If I do a megapixel, pick n place will be 100% necessary.

    • @chaos.corner
      @chaos.corner 4 года назад

      @@SeanHodgins Maybe do a single sensor with stepper placement. That would be pretty slow for sure though.

    • @romanhanajik3185
      @romanhanajik3185 4 года назад

      @@chaos.corner but taking signal/voltage can be continuous. But there is peoblem with inertia of photoresisor. I have one, where changing resistance from daily light to black box took 20-30sec. So it can be fun only with fast sensor... OR with moving not one pixel sensor, but old phone camera sensor. 😋🤩 Thank for new video sean with this idea. 😁🤗

  • @VictorCampos87
    @VictorCampos87 3 года назад +4

    5:45 The *digiOBSCURA* probably is a double easter-egg name.
    There is a Camera Obscura on a terror game called Fatal Frame.
    The "O" of Obscura is the "Aperture Science" logo (from game Portal).

  • @FaceStuffer
    @FaceStuffer 4 года назад +5

    That's freakin' cool. Cameras have always been magic to me, so its cool to learn how they actually work.

  • @ekojar3047
    @ekojar3047 10 месяцев назад +1

    If you ad an LED, make sure it is that same frequency. Also, for showing the images larger online, since you have photoshop, go to image and resize image , on the option that says AUTOMATIC, change it to NEAREST NEIGHBOR. Its a pixel art trick, its not perfect, like if you zoom in, some enlarged pixels will have an extra row of that color and the one its touching is missing a row BUT it will not blur your original photo out like the other bilinear options, it keeps all pixel neighbors the same and you still get those clean hard edges from your sensor, except it's being translated to us as a viewer better and bigger!

  • @eformance
    @eformance 4 года назад +7

    Looks like a Mamiya medium format camera.

  • @bornach
    @bornach 4 года назад +6

    Next step is to put a tilt/shift lens on front, capture several images with small translations of the lens moved automatically by a servo, and then combine all the images using a state-of-the-art super-resolution algorithm. This increasing image resolution with the same sensor, at the expense of capture time.

    • @hardyr
      @hardyr 4 года назад +2

      This is also a great testbed for other compressed sensing techniques, like coded-aperture or plenoptic imaging. Any technique used for single-pixel cameras could be applied to this setup to increase the spatial resolution as long as multiple exposures can be taken. For example, instead of a lens, there could be a translucent LCD flashing a unique coded aperture for each exposure.

    • @SeanHodgins
      @SeanHodgins  4 года назад +2

      These are some crazy ideas. Would love to test them out!

    • @tomdchi12
      @tomdchi12 4 года назад

      @@SeanHodgins There are lots of old view camera parts out there, and with the big sensor area, they'd be great for this system. A 4x5 body won't be super expensive, and there are lots of view camera lenses floating around on the used market. One issue for them is the shutters - I don't know if anyone is making shutters any more. They are "clockwork" mechanisms, so they tend to break/fail and are hard to maintain, so working/repaired ones aren't exactly cheap as chips. But if you are dealing with multi-second exposure times, you can go original old school, and simply take the lens cap off, wait, then put it back on. The whole view camera body/lens system would allow for focusing and great image quality optically.

  • @Richard25000
    @Richard25000 4 года назад +4

    Take 3 photos with 3 colour filters then merge them you then have a colour camera

  • @AjinkyaMahajan
    @AjinkyaMahajan 4 года назад +1

    Wow Super impressed by your work ✨👌👌👌
    You can further try to enhance it by adopting an LCCS shutter Technology.

  • @IgorKaratayev
    @IgorKaratayev 4 года назад +1

    Not an electronic expert here, but maybe you should connect every pixel to tiny capacitor and gather data from them after shutter close.
    Also would be cool to see some mechanics to move matrix and scan different areas of the image... Or color filter carousel to make rgb pics.
    Any way cool device for making file pictograms, 32x32 already)

  • @prussian7
    @prussian7 4 года назад +4

    Reminds me of a Robot eye I saw in a book from the 80s. I think yours is higher resolution.

  • @insanejughead
    @insanejughead 4 года назад +4

    I'm still curious; how's the bokeh?
    😂

    • @Wishingweezy
      @Wishingweezy 4 года назад

      Loll
      Can u help me with a sub

  • @kohjb
    @kohjb 4 года назад +3

    Great project! Loved how "basic" it is, yet results were great! Have you thought of stacking? Just keep exposing the same image multiple times and then use photoshop (or in camera?) to stack them to see if you can get a higher res'ed image.

  • @SameLif3
    @SameLif3 4 года назад +1

    Ok but how were photons created, I mean how to make?!! I’m starting to understand how it was made, guess technological evolution wasn’t that hard still was tho(I started studying programming but came to a solution of learning how it was made; and how to build)

  • @kjyhh
    @kjyhh 4 года назад +7

    Photoshop: its an icon!

    • @joshuachan6317
      @joshuachan6317 3 года назад

      Wait you name...
      科技戰艦 看多了嗎😂

    • @kjyhh
      @kjyhh 3 года назад

      Joshua Chan 🤣,但我這回復是一年前的。

    • @joshuachan6317
      @joshuachan6317 3 года назад

      @@kjyhh 笑死😂

  • @SopanKotbagi
    @SopanKotbagi 3 года назад +3

    Awesome project! Love such projects which try to reinvent stuff!

  • @elijahcarr4137
    @elijahcarr4137 4 года назад +12

    "Can't believe the details there!" Personally I prefer a little more pixels

  • @sillyshitt
    @sillyshitt 10 месяцев назад +1

    If you could make this sensitive to infrared it would be really really useful and interesting.

  • @Dumartins
    @Dumartins 11 месяцев назад +2

    The folder that you had shown has multiple pictures, I don't know if all of them were took at the same time, bit a thing you could do is make the sensor track the object in multiple parts and then stich all pieces together to make a bigger resolution

  • @thefreddally
    @thefreddally 4 года назад +17

    Something everyone wants to make but nobody has the patience

    • @81Mendel
      @81Mendel 4 года назад +1

      Actually. I have literally no desire to make something like this but it is still cool to see someone do stuff like this.

  • @JamesBailey123
    @JamesBailey123 3 года назад +3

    We need version 2, in version 2 you have 4 chips instead of 2, and a microscopic surface mount capacitor behind each solar cell. The first pair of chips reads the voltage and the second set discharges the capacitor. You would have incredible dynamic range, and a SNR about 1000x higher. You also could collaborate with another channel to build AI that superresolutions your output, as there is likely to be subpixel information you could obtain. Lastly, if you had a servo that moved the sensor 1/2 a pixel up / right, in a cycle of 4, you could greatly increase the resolution for static shots.

  • @ErikPelyukhno
    @ErikPelyukhno 3 года назад +3

    As a professional photographer who has a degree in electrical engineering and a ton of parts in a bin next to the reflow oven sitting around, this video is the hyper-niche inspo I needed to start a new personal project. Thank you!

  • @Potatoverynice
    @Potatoverynice 3 года назад +1

    that's cool and all but what's its mac iso, dynamic range, does it have in-body stabilisation? how many focusing points?

  • @anasqsous8195
    @anasqsous8195 6 месяцев назад +1

    can you raise the resolution by stacking meltable images together ?

  • @christianlainesse4281
    @christianlainesse4281 4 года назад +6

    I can't wait for someone to come up with a DIY machine that automatically solders phototransistors, so you don't have to do it by hand, to create large format camera sensors...

    • @Ferferite
      @Ferferite 4 года назад +1

      If you buy a smd board from jlcpcb.com/ they can assamble it for you!

    • @romanhanajik3185
      @romanhanajik3185 4 года назад +1

      @@Ferferite nice, only this make a sense for bigger resolution. Maybe they will make a video of process and we will see speed of completing 1-8 pieces in 1 sec. See him solder 966 pieces was painfull for me in this century. 😃

    • @pietrog
      @pietrog 4 года назад

      @@romanhanajik3185 yes

  • @timipisoboy
    @timipisoboy 4 года назад +1

    Try putting RGB lenses on front to get color picture. You can watch 8bit guy who did it and it turned out quite good.

  • @estiaanj8425
    @estiaanj8425 4 года назад +1

    If you put a red, green and blue filter in front of the lens and then took one photo for each and combined them in photoshop as each being the respective colour channel you'd have an colour image!

  • @theothertonydutch
    @theothertonydutch Год назад +1

    Maybe fun to try ai upscaling and see how close it gets at 1080 x 1080.

  • @JagdeepRamgarhia
    @JagdeepRamgarhia 3 года назад +2

    1:30 it doesn't effect until 100x100 bc am watching at 144p XD

  • @pawlack
    @pawlack 10 месяцев назад +1

    So this is the camera everybody uses to photo ufo and bigfoot :)

  • @marshallwilliams4054
    @marshallwilliams4054 4 месяца назад +1

    I realize it’s four years later. I wonder if you could increase the resolution by developing an algorithm to interpolate the delta between each sensor and its surrounding sensor to create a virtual sensor.

    • @SeanHodgins
      @SeanHodgins  2 месяца назад

      This video is 4 years old...? Where does the time go?

  • @MasseyLee
    @MasseyLee 3 года назад +2

    Sorry I'm late to the party - But very impressive ! I wonder if you could use Sub Pixel stacking to improve the resolution. ie. move the camera very slightly between frames and put them together to get a higher resolution (a technique we use in AstroPhotography)

  • @onbekendunknown2660
    @onbekendunknown2660 3 года назад +1

    I'd really like to see these photos being processed by Photoshop super resolution

  • @vanhetgoor
    @vanhetgoor 11 месяцев назад +1

    Thought you would go exactly the other way. Like 32 Giga pixels and not in RGB but in RGBiu (infrared and ultraviolet). Oh well, next time.

    • @SeanHodgins
      @SeanHodgins  11 месяцев назад +1

      IR needs a special lens. I should get one!