Many companies , include Alphabet ’s Project Ara , promise us that the future is modular , piece of hardware added soul to create the exact gadget you postulate . AlthoughAra is still toiling away on its bit-by-bit smartphone , research from Columbia University ’s computer vision testing ground is making that promise a reality for cameras .
This system is call Cambits . By connecting different colored blocks together — make up a base , sensing element , instant , actuator , lens system , and optical attachments like polarizers , or microscopes — you could make a colourful camera brick - by - brick . The block themselves are connect magnetically and channel data , exponent , and control signal through spring - loaded pin .
The video read lots of different combinations , like creating your own microscope or setting up a two - lens system for stereoscopic figure . The rotor attachments looks more or less slight and the final Cambits would believably some commercial spitting shine before it became something dishonest .
It cause sentiency that tv camera would be a natural start point for exploring a newfangled earthly concern of modular devices . After all , photographic camera electron lens are sort of modular attachments anyway . Afew party have toyed with more modular designs , and there are evenDIY modular camsout there . But none goes as far or look as bare to ramp up than Cambits , and damn , it expect fun .
[ Columbia Engineering ]
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