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Google Summer of Code Wrap 2021

Google Summer of Code or short GSoC came to an end for this years season recently and here we want to showcase some of the cool projects students worked on this year around the AXIOM project. Remote Test System for AXIOM Remote Example python script to run automated AXIOM Remote tests "The project I worked on over this summer, was to develop a test system that would allow remote and automated testing of the AXIOM Remote for development purposes. This mainly involved two parts: Developing... » Read more

AXIOM Team Talk 16.1 and 15.5 - Industrial Hardware Production Run, etc.

*/ This is part 1 of our first home-office edition AXIOM Team Talk (Season 16). For the previous episodes please see AXIOM Team Talk archive . First Industrial Hardware Production Run As you have probably seen in previous AXIOM Team Talk episodes we are located in the Factory Hub Vienna , an industrial co-working space in the south of Vienna, featuring extensive electronics manufacturing infrastructure. After building all AXIOM Beta Developer Kits manually by hand so far which really does not... » Read more

Google Summer of Code Wrap 2020

Google Summer of Code or short GSoC came to an end for this years season recently and here we want to showcase some of the cool projects students work on this year around the AXIOM camera. Linux Kernel Driver for Lattice MachXO2 Linux Kernel Driver for Lattice MachXO2 Development "My task was to develop a Linux Kernel Driver to program and debug the Lattice MachXO2 FPGAs present in the AXIOM Beta. These FPGAs are used as routing fabrics to save valuable Zynq GPIOs. Previously, both the FPGAs... » Read more

AXIOM Team Talk 15.4 - Optical Filters & Firmware 2.0

*/ This is part four of a recently shot round of AXIOM Team Talks. For the previous episodes please see AXIOM Team Talk archive . Optical Filters: Ultraviolet/Infrared Cut Off in the AXIOM Beta We humans see colours because of light’s having different wavelengths. The part of the electromagnetic spectrum that’s visible to the human eye measures from around 400 nanometers (nm) to around 700 nm with what non-colourblind people perceive as colours ranging from blue, running through the various... » Read more

Calling all technical writers!

Technical Documentation now! You can certainly imagine that creating an open source and open hardware cinema camera is a mammoth task and requires collaboration of many different professions and peoples backgrounds. For new users and developers getting to know the ins and outs of the projects hard and software is essential though. So we need your help! We are looking for technical writers to help us improve and extend our guides, tutorials, manuals and documentation . Please get in touch with... » Read more

AXIOM Team Talk 15.3 - Packaging & AXIOM Micro

*/ This is part three of a recently shot round of AXIOM Team Talks. For the previous episodes please see the apertus° Wiki . Packaging Hard Case. Currently all AXIOM Beta Developer Kits ship in cardboard boxes filled with bubble wrap and plastic bags. This solution is far from ideal as the packaging cannot be reused and all the packaging material becomes trash when the camera has been received. As a future shipment option, we consider a hard-case that's functional, practical and can last a long... » Read more

AXIOM Team Talk 15.1 - Hardware Production Progress and first Metal Compact Enclosure Prototype

*/ AXIOM Team Talk Season 15 This is the first part of a 'Series 15' of AXIOM Team Talks shot in summer 2019. Resident hirsute AXIOM enthusiast, Max, again paid Sebastian a visit at the AXIOM offices in Factory Hub Vienna to get an update on latest development topics and preparations that are being made for production. AXIOM Team Talks are short videos to provide insights into sometimes complex and very technical aspects of the community project to create the first fully open source cinema... » Read more

AXIOM Team Talk 14.2 - SDI, IMU, Power Board and Enclosure Progress

*/ AXIOM Team Talk This is the second part of a recent round of AXIOM Team Talks we shot across the summer. The other two episodes can be watched at: 14.1 - Moving Facilities, Updates and GSoC Projects. 14.3 - Injection moulding, AXIOM Remote, Social Media and Metal Smelting. Dual 6G SDI Plugin Module First generation Dual 6G SDI Development prototype based on an off-the-shelf FPGA module Previously, across Winter 2017 together with timvideos.us at 34C3 in Germany, we showcased a first... » Read more

AXIOM Team Talk Volume 14.1 - Moving Facilities, Updates and GSoC Projects

Moving Offices For the last two years the AXIOM headquarters has cohabited from the modest Amescon facilities in the 15th District of Vienna, Austria. This is where most of the electronics manufacturing for the AXIOM Betas has taken place. This spring we began the process of moving to a new, bigger and better shared office called Factory Hub Vienna - this was quite a challenge as the pick and place machine was built and assembled inside the old office and so it wasn’t clear whether or not the... » Read more

Google Summer of Code Wrap 2018

Debayering Inside OpenCine Debayer Algorithms Comparison. "My task was to develop, implement and accelerate debayering algorithms into OpenCine . The chosen demosaicers were Nearest Neighbor Interpolation , Bilinear Interpolation , Green Edge Directed Interpolation (GEDI) and SHOODAK2, and were successfully implemented and accelerated with OpenMP . Towards the end of the project, I tried to accelerate with OpenCL , albeit with no significant advantages. The SHOODAK2 algorithm was also marked... » Read more