This New Open-Source Camera Has Swappable Sensors and Lens Mounts

This New Open-Source Camera Has Swappable Sensors and Lens Mounts

German electronics company CircuitValley has launched the CHC5 on Kickstarter, which it describes as "the world's first commercially available modular camera system for advanced imaging." The CHC5's claim to fame is that the user can freely swap out the image sensor, rotating through a wide range of sensor sizes and formats.

Circuit Valley CHC5 - A modular USB, HDMI, and Ethernet camera system (Crowdfunding) - CNX Software

Circuit Valley’s CHC5 is a modular camera system based on a Core board powered by an AMD/Xilinx Zynq-7020 SoC FPGA, a range of interface boards with USB, HDMI, or Ethernet (PoE), various sensor boards, and a metal enclosure. The solution can be customized with different lens objectives and different sensors with MIPI D-PHY, LVDS, Sub-LVDS, Low Voltage LVDS, or SLVS interfaces. The Zynq-7020’s Cortex-A9 cores can handle complex tasks, while the F…