Elphel Inc. founder Andrey Filippov describes the company’s latest series of intelligent, network-enabled cameras based on open-source hardware and Linux-based software, and the underlying design philosophies. The company hopes the new devices will see use in high-definition videography, among other interesting applications.

In addition to publishing its camera software and FPGA HDL files under open source licenses, Elphel offers a Knoppix-based live CD with an AJAX-based camera user interface and DVR (digital video recording) software — all of which are available via a SourceForge project.

This is awesome that geeks dream about…as cool as Lego Mindstorm!

Links:

1) Quick intro
2) High Resolution Cameras for Web Developers
3) AJAX, LAMP, and liveDVD for a Linux-based camera
4) Using Embedded Linux in a High Speed Gated Intensified Camera
5) Elphel 10353 processor board
6) Live video demo with Google Map!

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