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Frankencamera is open source, runs on Linux (CNet Asia)
Leonard Goh takes
a look at Frankencamera. "Photo scientists at Stanford University have conceived what is probably the world's first open-source camera. Their contraption, dubbed the Frankencamera, consists of a Nokia N95 mobile phone camera module, circuit board, a couple of lenses from Canon and Linux for all the open-source goodness."
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Frankencamera is open source, runs on Linux (CNet Asia) Posted Sep 4, 2009 22:24 UTC (Fri) by gmaxwell (subscriber, #30048) [Link] A superior frankencamera has long existed. There are some spiffy exampled buried in a number of places on the wiki, a few are linked from the features page.
Frankencamera is open source, runs on Linux (CNet Asia) Posted Sep 5, 2009 15:41 UTC (Sat) by TRS-80 (subscriber, #1804) [Link] I guess CHDK doesn't count as it builds on the existing firmware?
Elphel cameras Posted Sep 5, 2009 21:09 UTC (Sat) by sladen (subscriber, #27402) [Link] ...Would the Elphel cameras (used for Google Street View and the like) not count? There's GPLed source down to the FPGA level:
Frankencamera is open source, runs on Linux (CNet Asia) Posted Sep 5, 2009 20:41 UTC (Sat) by leoc (subscriber, #39773) [Link] One of the grad students involved posted some information in a slashdot comment about the project in relation to both elphel and chdk.
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