This high frame rate camera takes from 840 to over 10,000 frames per second to produce amazing slow motion video at a very low cost.
Latest Updates from Our Project:
Sensor Boards are Fully Working
over 9 years ago
– Sat, Apr 04, 2015 at 02:37:36 AM
Just a quick note to tell you that the sensor boards are fully working and the firmware changes have been made to handle the wider memory bandwidth. No hardware modifications are required.
The next stage for this board will be to make a small production run. Testing will continue with the motherboard.
Look out for an update over this weekend regarding the upgrades.
New Sensor Boards are Back!
over 9 years ago
– Mon, Mar 09, 2015 at 04:29:09 PM
Today I received the first of the new boards for the fps1000. The design is now split into 2 boards: the sensor board with the sensor (!), memory and high speed control logic, and a motherboard which houses the batteries, processor, the real world interfaces (SDIO card, USB3 interface and trigger inputs / outputs) and the LCD control. The two boards connect through 2 high speed, fine pitched connectors.
The sensor board is common for all 3 models (Silver, Gold, Platinum), with a different sensor for each. The new sensor board looks a lot like the original fps1000 and it is essentially the same design. There are more memory chips on the new board (although still the same total capacity) to provide a higher bandwidth memory bus so the clock frequencies don't need to be pushed to extremes.
Here are some shots of the new board (sorry for the self indulgence but I feel like a proud father showing off his new offspring!).
First samples of the motherboard are being assembled at the moment. More photos next week.
Both sides of the new sensor board.
The first boards have the Platinum sensor fitted. The same board can also house the Silver and Gold sensors (shown at top).
Front. The USB connector is just for debug purposes - it is not exposed to the outside world.
The back of the board. The two parallel connectors mate with connectors on the motherboard. The other connector is for attaching an LCD display for debug purposes only.
