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Anuejn reported progress at this weeks IRC team meeting with reverse engineering the 5D Mark II image sensor, hardware (a 4 layer PCB) has been designed to interface between Z-turn Lite FPGA development board and the image sensor.
While measuring cable lengths for the new power button and power connector in the AXIOM Beta Compact enclosure we discovered that the connectors are longer than anticipated and do not fit the available space :( and for 0.1" headers there are actually no shorter connector alternatives available. Now the proposed solution is a small PCB that does the power splitting and moves the connectors to a place where space is available.
You remember the barrel maker workshop we cleaned out recently to convert into our very own camera electronics manufacturing facility. While not everything is finished yet the big machine journey of stencil printer, pick and place machine and conveyor re-flow oven happened yesterday together with hundreds of other small things. Everything arrived safely and the new space is taking shape!
Latest additions to AXIOM raw recorder software (https://github.com/apertus-open-source-cinema/axiom-recorder/tree/gpu_node_refactor) now allow storing/converting DNGs in unit16 as well as float32 (used with averaging many frames mostly) mode as the color profiling efforts continue
AXIOM Beta Compact Enclosure assembly preparations for the first kits to ship are progressing well and I just experienced the most satisfying click in the entire process 😍
In this workshop a barrel maker worked probably for a few decades, now we are converting it into an AXIOM electronics manufacturing facility, this is the BEFORE image, stay tuned for the AFTER image :)
First diode laser cut steel metal sheet for AXIOM Beta Compact enclosure lens mount shims have been produced from 0.01mm sheets.
What shines pink and green in the most vivid 80ies colors here are actually assembled AXIOM Beta Compact enclosure ultra violet infra red light blocking (UV/IR) optical filters.
Unbelievable! Diode laser can cut thin steel metal sheets without issue. It doesn't work with several other kind of metal sheets (like copper) but it does with steel....
