NerdCam3D has arrived

Hi folks,

it really has been a while, my last post is months ago. But in the meantime I have made major progress. First of all I have bought an Axial Wraith, a RC-car that offers lots of hardpoints to mount and attach devices. Then some guy from the Geman FPV-community made a small GRP-case for the camera. In this way I was able to crawl through my backyard in FPV for the first time (see 1st attached video).

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Then it took me four months to completely rework my PCB and camera design in such a way, that all SMD components fit on only one PSB as much as possible. The overall size of the cam became smaller and is now at 100mm x 34 mm with a total weight of only 50g (half the weight of the previous camera version). Here your can see the assebled PCB with all SMD-components directly after reflow-soldering in my pizza oven (details here).

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Then after a few days of hacking and adapting the firmware I got a first running stereoscopic side-by-side video signal out of the camera - who-hoo.

This camera has got only one PCB, the XuLA-200 FPGA board is mounted from the back-side. Finally I made a short introductory video of the new NerdCam3D (see 2nd attached video).

I think with this camera my effords towards Woody Mk1 will come to an end so that I can focus on other things in near future.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOirGqswzUM