Wishlist

As user I noticed some things I wanted to have on my camera, I hope anyone that has ideas can add them here. What features are you waiting for? What software components are still missing that you cannot live without?

Software

If a project has been completed just add the developer that did it, or is busy on it.

Sensor

• Dead/Hot pixel correction

Compass

• DONE Implement calibration

Networking

• DHCP (timeouted) and DNS-SD
• GigaBit ethernet
• Zeroconf (Rendezvous)
•  [OpenSound Control] [OpenSound Control on wikipedia], [introduction to OSC on linuxjournal]
• CF Ethernet card support [CF 10/100 Ethernet cards list]
• CF WiFi card support [WCF54G]
• CF USB card support [SolarExpress] [CFU2]

Fastest Boot

• Fast Boot

C API

• C API

UDMA support

• Enable UDMA in the Axis kernel. Needed to support most fast CF cards, will also boost speed on SATA.

Debayer Algorithmn

• Higher image quality debayer algorithmn FPGA implementation -> VNG

Hardware

What will the next elphel camera most likely entitled Elphel 373 be like?

Power Supply

• optional 5-36V supply over additional jack DC/DC POE TI Article

Sensor

• Vignetting hardware correction
• Lens distortion hardware correction
• Fixed pattern noise (FPN) correction
• Flash mode for rolling shutter
• Make image thumbnails (binning 8x8 from DCT[0,0] data)

Position adjustment

• initial focus/pan/tilt sensor adjustment

Interface

• group VLDS pairs in flexible cable from sensor to board
• CCD sensors

Sony IMX021

• designed for DSLRs (possibly the sensor used in Nikon D300 / D90)
• 12.4 MPix
• 5.5 µm pixel
• 0.18 µm technology
• 28mm x 22.2 mm APS-C sized 1.8" image area (28.4 mm diagonal)
• 12 bit column ADC
• 10.4 fps in 12.4 MPix mode
• on-chip noise reduction
• parallel A/D for every pixel coloumn

CPU

• USB2.0 Support

External data sensors support

• DONE GPS
• DONE Compass
• Dry contact (simply switch event)
• DONE RFID
• Proximity
• Environment sensors: Temperature/Humidity/Pressure/Illuminance/Loudness/.. Open Weather, EL-USB-RT, USBTenki, USB Weather Board, CY3271-EXP1 (PSoC Environmental Sensing Kit)
• Futaba servo captute interface (for robots)

External control

• USB2.0 Support
• Futaba servo control interface (for robots) PSC Pan&Tilt OpenServo Verilog solution Polulu
• Relay control
• CAN support quickcan USB CAN Adapter
• DMX512 support DMX512
• Secure Digital support CF-SD