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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

*/ 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

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

*/ 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

*/ This is part two of a recently shot round of AXIOM Team Talks. For the previous episode please see AXIOM Team Talk 15.1 . Google Summer of Code Projects Google Summer of Code Development. Google Summer of Code HDL Development. Once again apertus° participated in Google’s sponsored program for students working with open source projects like this one. Here is a brief insight into what was worked on this year for Summer of Code . Six student slots were filled with excellent applications and... » Read more

*/ 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

*/ Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Marseille Technology Research Institute Welcome back to the world of apertus°. ... Home of FOSS, open hardware, professional digital cinema and imaging tools. If you're unfamiliar with the project then AXIOM Beta is the first cinema camera built around FOSS licenses. Other hardware devices such as AXIOM Remote and software like the RAW processing suite OpenCine are also being developed alongside. All software and hardware are made open source and open hardware... » Read more

*/ Factory Hub Vienna (Tele) Electronics Production Facility Welcome back to the world of apertus°. ... Home of FOSS, open hardware, professional digital cinema and imaging tools. If you're unfamiliar with the project then AXIOM Beta is the first cinema camera built around FOSS licenses. Other hardware devices such as AXIOM Remote and software like the RAW processing suite OpenCine are also being developed alongside. All software and hardware are made open source and open hardware. Development... » Read more