Open Source Camera

Lift France 09‘s theme was “hands on future”, “a future where we are all actors of change, where objects are not just smart and connected, but also customizable, hackable, transformable, fully recyclable”.

This new paradigm is happening slowly, and several mainstream objects are being opened around the world. After the open source phone comes the Frankencamera, an “open-source digital camera, which will give programmers around the world the chance to create software that will teach cameras new tricks“.

Andrew Adams, who helped design the prototype of the Stanford camera (dubbed Frankencamera,) imagines a future where consumers download applications to their open-platform cameras the way Apple apps are downloaded to iPhones today. [...]

users will be able to continuously improve [the camera], programmers will have the freedom to experiment with new ways of tuning the camera’s response to light and motion, adding their own algorithms to process the raw images in innovative ways.

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