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- Bryantho, on 03/24/2009, -0/+14I'd like to be the first to welcome the entire staff of Freescale Semiconductor to Digg.
- seks03, on 03/24/2009, -0/+12WOW, only $1,995.00 for this camera... what a deal!
- bays, on 03/24/2009, -0/+9i was expecting a make-style article, cheap webcam / nic / duct tape type thing
might as well have been make your own LHC from scratch - nedzeve, on 03/24/2009, -0/+8Do you see the first tab in the top left of the page? "Technology"?
- chrysrobyn, on 03/24/2009, -0/+7From the comments rorr.im caught:
"BTW, suggested unit price is around USD12 at 10K volume."
I think there's a 0 missing. $12 for a camera with hardware video compression and POE, with USB and SD is unrealistic. If that's the right price, however, put me down for 10. - samadam, on 03/24/2009, -2/+9Are you kidding me? How does this get 133 diggs?
- slaintrax, on 03/24/2009, -0/+7http://rorr.im
edit: heh :P - noutoo, on 03/24/2009, -1/+8down at 91 diggs
- nbcaffeine, on 03/24/2009, -0/+62008 is sooo last year!
- breakaway, on 03/24/2009, -0/+6What I want to know is why most of these "Security Cameras" have quality so poor you can't tell an ass from a face. Why even bother?
- ultrafez, on 03/24/2009, -0/+5Actually the quality's crystal clear. The problem is that you are testing the camera on yourself.
- IronTek, on 03/24/2009, -0/+5I'd rather have it NOW, but, from:
http://ip-cam.org/showthread.php?tid=16
April 15th:
Website live: www.freescale.com/imx27ipcamera
Documentation available on the web (Getting Started Guide, User Guide).
Design files and BOM available for download.
Early Q3 2008:
IP camera kit available for order with full HW/SW ISO.
Going to have to wait until Q3. If they're reasonably priced though, time to order a few for the whole house! - nutsackninja, on 03/24/2009, -1/+5What resolution can this camera do? Because in my experiences the video quality of most security cameras is very poor.
- Murfshay22, on 03/24/2009, -1/+5http://rorr.im/digg.com/hardware/how_to_make_an_ip ...
edit: damn you slaintrax! - h0dges, on 03/24/2009, -0/+4Why is yours not?
- Spire3660, on 03/24/2009, -0/+4Q3 2008??
- slaintrax, on 03/24/2009, -0/+3Woosh!
- Krumm, on 03/24/2009, -0/+3Yay! Farnell show stock at only £3,956.99
I'll take three please!
http://uk.farnell.com/freescale-semiconductor/mcim ... - FTLJohnson, on 03/24/2009, -0/+3Did you forget what year it is?
- SWiG, on 03/24/2009, -0/+3POE = Awesome
- slaintrax, on 03/24/2009, -0/+3FTA: We can compress in MPEG-4 and H.2644 formats up to D1 resolution.
From Google: D1 can mean one of the following video resolutions: 704x576 (TV PAL) 704x480 (TV NTSC). - IronTek, on 03/24/2009, -0/+3Yep! HUA Syndrome on that one!
Actually, the original post was bitching about how it'd be hard to get just one or two from Freescale since they prefer to sell in quantity. But then I saw that post and just assumed it was new enough as to not be available, not bothering to parse the date in my head (But, while we're at it, how is it the end of March '09 already?! Life moves pretty fast...).
At any rate, it'd be nice to buy one or two of these for less than the $2,000 it seems to be going for from Freescale at:
http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/prod_summ ... - Samurai77, on 03/24/2009, -0/+210K = 10,000 min order, so you'd need about $120,000.00.
- chrysrobyn, on 03/24/2009, -0/+2@Samurai77
Yep, that's how it works. And places like NewEgg and the like don't mark it up much from the 10K order size. 10%, 20% sure, but they won't charge anywhere near what current ethernet enabled video cameras cost. - o76923, on 03/24/2009, -0/+2because these have higher resolution than standard television? Go read the comment that already addressed this issue.
- haikuFU, on 03/24/2009, -0/+2$2000? Why can't someone make these things for a reasonable price? I'll take 12 of them at $100 each. I will take ZERO at $2k each.
If these things were cheap enough, every geek in this country would have their homes plastered with them. - fluxion, on 03/24/2009, -0/+2omfg nm
edit: actually i get the impression that's for a single reference design and you can order in bulk for retail distribution for much less...but im only guessing here - HonoredMule, on 03/25/2009, -0/+1No x.264 though.
- Fixion, on 03/25/2009, -0/+1I'm more partial to TI's IP camera reference design:
http://www.dspdesignline.com/showArticle.jhtml?art ... - divinediva, on 03/24/2009, -2/+3In the webpage interface, type 'dhcp' in the Wired IP Address configuration field, save, and then reboot the camera. It should then be getting an address from your DHCP server.
- paulhickey, on 03/25/2009, -0/+1why would you want it dhcp? You need to have it static to forward the port so you can access it from teh inter-tubes
- breakaway, on 03/25/2009, -0/+1touche
- shallot, on 03/24/2009, -0/+1I want one....
- rif42, on 03/29/2009, -0/+1For people looking for a cheaper network enabled camera e.g. Edimax have these:
http://www.edimax.com/en/produce_list.php?pl1_id=8 ...
End user prices EUR 50+.
http://www.alternate.de/
Select Hardware -> Bild/Foto -> Webcams -> LAN - KibibyteBrain, on 03/26/2009, -0/+1I think the quality of the camera image would have more to do with the optics/cmos sensor used than the resolution in this case. Most people don't want an HD-sized image for a security feed, but they would like something that isn't blurry and washed out. That said, this chip claims to do auto-leveling so we will see.
Also, I'd hardly call using the reference design for basically a system-on-chip product being "from scratch"/ - AceyS, on 03/24/2009, -2/+2Why is this a question.
- thisthatwhat, on 03/30/2009, -0/+0There are always cheaper camera's retail. This is meant as a reference design. Has Wi-Fi, ethernet, Camera sensor capable of D1, H.264/MP4/H.263 compression. It's the features that make it stand out. It runs Linux so it has great potential for expandability.
- cs97009, on 04/01/2009, -0/+0$100?? That is too high, dear ! You should be looking at $40. Look at this from foxbusiness:
http://www.foxbusiness.com/story/comprehensive-ip- ... - cs97009, on 04/01/2009, -0/+0That link is 2 year old design. This new one below has H.264 HD and more..
http://www.ti.com/ipcamera - Spire3660, on 03/24/2009, -1/+0Security theater of course!
- inactive, on 03/25/2009, -2/+0hey guys
have u ever seen this before ..
click before
http://shadow.media2win.com/BajajXCD135/?um=04 - Spire3660, on 03/24/2009, -3/+0FTA: camera market and having a reference design will enable customers to get to mark it quickly.
Mark it??? really? - guhpol, on 03/24/2009, -7/+3Now this is really interesting. I'd like to know how I can configure the ip camera to use a DHCP server. Anyone?
- topget, on 03/24/2009, -6/+2i'm looking for this. thank you
- FunnyBoyz, on 03/24/2009, -7/+2Is i.MX27 has internal video compatibility signals? I have gone through some reference designs. In that, Digital Image Processor is used. Is this processor is necessary?
- TheScreamer, on 03/24/2009, -15/+1Go ahead and digg me down, but doesn't this story really belong on slashdot instead of here?
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