Show HN: I made a tiny camera with super long battery life

Hey HN!

A few years ago someone kept trying to steal my motorcycle, so I decided to make a small camera with really long battery life to catch them.

The hardware/software is totally open source, but the companion app only supports macOS currently. (I'm a big fan of native apps, and didn't want to block releasing on Linux/Windows support.)

I wrote some blog posts about the process:

PCB design: https://toaster.llc/blog/pcb

Enclosure design: https://toaster.llc/blog/enclosure

Image pipeline: https://toaster.llc/blog/image-pipeline

Rainproofing: https://toaster.llc/blog/rainproofing

Source: https://github.com/toasterllc/Photon

843 points davekeck 2 years ago 299 comments

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