By: huh
That relatively huge heatsink has been put there presumably to cool down the sensor too, in order to reduce noise in the image. Many amateur astronomers in the past used ordinary webcams hooked to...
View ArticleBy: Johannes
Interesting. But how on earth could they screw up the audio to such a degree? Terrible aliasing. Did they forget to put in an LP filter?
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Probably didn’t put much care into it because audio recording would be difficult, at best. After all, if you’re going outside, you’re going to put it inside the plastic waterproof case, which is going...
View ArticleBy: Richard
I’d say this isn’t mainly for “heatsink” purposes but for heat distribution whithin the case. One particular problem when building such integrated camera systems for outdoor use is, that the lens and...
View ArticleBy: moeb
The blobs of thermal compound on the chips dont seem like the chips had any contact to the heatsink… looks a bit like a clearance/fit fail. If you remove the heatsink from your CPU, which fit quite...
View ArticleBy: Jordan
iI have heard the new generation go pros have ditched the SoC and are using the new Freescale Kinetis MCU’s.
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