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This Raspberry Pi sees in the dark
ArduCam sent me their Pivistation 5 cameras, which are Pi 5s and Pi cases mashed up with three of their nicest camera modules, paired up with some nice lenses.
You can read more about the specs on their Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/arducam/pivistation-5-your-all-in-one-raspberry-pi-5-camera-kit
WARNING: If you back the Kickstarter, there is no guarantee anything will ever ship to you. It is not the same as purchasing a product. I call it out in the video, I'm calling it out here... I don't think ArduCam will have any trouble manufacturing these cameras, but you've been warned!
(I also don't know why they feel the need to do a Kickstarter, these cameras could just be sold on their existing store, and it's not like they set a high goal...).
I also mentioned a couple other things in this video:
- My ArduCam Hawkeye camera module review: www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2022/64-megapixel-hawk-eye-brings-high-res-imaging-pi
- AXIS 212 PTZ IP camera with fisheye lens: www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?&_nkw=axis+212+ptz
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Contents:
00:00 - A word on Kickstater
00:47 - Hawkeye
01:43 - Darksee
03:00 - Klarity
04:25 - Darksee teardown
06:44 - Cheap-o tripod
07:30 - Testing Darksee
10:51 - All sky fisheye
12:56 - Testing Klarity
15:34 - A microphone is a person - Pytorch demo
16:57 - Good hardware, odd Kickstarter
End UA-camr reference: ServeTheHome
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Відео

Raspberry Pi Intends to Float: New IPO details
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Raspberry Pi just announced an 'Intention to Float'. What can we learn from the latest release from the London Stock Exchange? Read the full document here: www.londonstockexchange.com/news-article/market-news/expected-intention-to-float/16470316 And see my earlier thoughts on the IPO here: www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2024/raspberry-pi-ipo-selling-out Support me on Patreon: www.patreon.com/geerlin...
I NEVER thought I'd see this
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The aurora (northern lights) reached as far south as Texas last night-maybe calling them 'northern lights' is a bit of a stretch. In the midst of a G5-level solar storm, where hundreds of gigajoules of magnetic energy was bombarding our atmosphere, people around the world witnessed a beautiful display of light and color. I was lucky enough to have clear skies in St. Louis, MO, so here's a video...
Northern Lights - Aurora Borealis 2024 from St. Louis, MO USA
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I took this video right after dusk in St. Louis, MO, USA, during the aurora that was visible as far south as Alabama! Nature is truly beautiful... and it's crazy to think there is so much energy being absorbed by our atmosphere. I'm glad we have it to protect us :)
Remote video call desk setup: PRO TIER
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On Zoom calls I'm often asked how I get such a nice, sharp picture and crisp, clear audio. There's no secret, just a decade spent optimizing every part of my desk setup to make it fast, easy, and pro-quality! Things I mentioned in this setup (links are affiliate links): - OBS: obsproject.com - Sony a6600: amzn.to/3JWnxhC - Sony ZEISS 24mm f/1.8 lens: amzn.to/4bNRVab - Sony a6600 AC dummy batter...
Tiny Pi NAS: It's impossible to recommend
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The X1011 is a quad NVMe Raspberry Pi NAS board. With a few compromises. I can't recommend it... but I also can't _not_ recommend it. It's complicated; let me explain! Things I mentioned in this video (some links are affiliate links): - Geekworm X1011: geekworm.com/products/x1011 - FriendlyElec CM3588: www.friendlyelec.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=294 - LTT Video on CM3588: ua...
Say Hello to My Little Rack!
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10" mini racks are awesome-at least I think so! DeskPi just launched a new line of 10" gear perfect for smaller portable equipment or homelabs, and I'm loading one up with my Pi clusters! Disclaimer: DeskPi sent me the RackMate T1, and MyElectronics sent me the two Mini ITX cluster cases (though I purchased the Pi cluster, Pis, and Turing Pi 2 that I fitted inside!). Things I mentioned in this ...
Installing a dome security camera on an exterior block wall
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How I installed an exterior security camera on the rear block wall at my new studio, and wired it up with PoE into my Raspberry Pi Frigate NVR. Some of the things I mentioned (some links are affiliate links): - Hikvision 2MP Dome camera: amzn.to/3S8o2Kv - Video where I set up my Pi Frigate NVR: ua-cam.com/video/7wkVGcdI2vk/v-deo.html - PC110 WMS Wall Mount Bracket for Dome camera: amzn.to/4b6Uy...
Quick review: Infiray P2 Pro thermal IR camera
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Xinfrared sent me their P2 Pro thermal IR camera for testing after I spoke to them at CES 2024. The product was sent to me for testing, they did not pay for this video, nor did they have any input into its content or preview of it prior to my posting. You can find out more about the P2 Pro on their website: www.xinfrared.com/products/infiray_p2_pro_thermal_camera If you want to support the chan...
Bailey's Beads and Diamond Ring - 2024 Total Solar Eclipse
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30 second clip of Bailey's Beads and Diamond ring, at the end of totality. This view also shows some massive prominences that were visible during the April 8, 2024 Total Solar Eclipse over parts of North America.

КОМЕНТАРІ

  • @OlavAlexanderMjelde
    @OlavAlexanderMjelde День тому

    Hello, do you know of a very small NAS with USB-out, so you could use it as a sentry drive in a Tesla and get it to connect to the home wifi when coming home? Some times I have to pull clips from sentry and then have to unplug the drive, so would be cool if I could just share the nvme drive via usb-c and also via Wi-Fi. Right now I made my own nvme 2tb drive for sentry, with an Asus nvme "box", but it just has usb-c

  • @Addiram78
    @Addiram78 День тому

    I would love to build front grill camera for my jeep, I need to keep an extra eye out for deer, the night vison would. Great video Jeff

  • @UKsystems
    @UKsystems День тому

    One thing I recommend with the PDUs is trying to get an IEC one because it uses a standard server power connectors and you can get plenty of little switches and things that will be powered off it and I imagine with North American plugs the adapters will be pretty small from iec

  • @UKsystems
    @UKsystems День тому

    These racks are good because the cheap faster which is on AliExpress are always only a few ports so they would fit perfectly in one of these

  • @PierricDescamps
    @PierricDescamps 2 дні тому

    I really want there to be a cheap board like either of those, low-power which takes SATA M.2 rather than NVME, AND I want manufacturers to build 4TB (or more) SATA M.2 at decent prices. Basically I want a bulk storage solution that is compact, cheap and low-power. I don't think I've seen anything going in that direction.

  • @ActionYakPolice
    @ActionYakPolice 2 дні тому

    there was just too much light pollution to see em

  • @MichaelSalaA
    @MichaelSalaA 3 дні тому

    Im using this as a 1U UPS (powershield.com.au/wp-content/uploads/brochures/NinjaSlimlineUPS600_Brochure.pdf). Think I might just need to get this rack to complete the home lab set up.

  • @KenSvensson
    @KenSvensson 4 дні тому

    Maybe you don't need a PDU for AC power, you can get a 12VDC "PDU" by using a blank 1U Panel and drill some sockets, and a high amperage AC/DC converter (or brick).

  • @odinata
    @odinata 5 днів тому

    Hey bro...I say this out of love. YOu have to give up the Diet Pepsi. Its Poison. Im sorry....don't ban me. Its jsut true. With your gut troubles you can't touch this cancer.

  • @maxmyzer9172
    @maxmyzer9172 5 днів тому

    6:57 I have that exact tripod (part of it missing) and I find it still working fairly well. You can do angles IF you telescope the legs, and you have to twist the ring it to fold it out more. the manufacturing isn't great though so it doesn't operate very smoothly

    • @Level2Jeff
      @Level2Jeff 5 днів тому

      Ah... so partly a user error, partly just it's not manufactured with nice tolerances.

  • @bfbunny
    @bfbunny 5 днів тому

    I recently repurposed a poco f2 pro for a c-mount camera lens and had been getting contrast issues / weird colors on the edges of the CMOS, which I weren’t able to pinpoint the issue of. Glad that Jeff reviewed the ArduCam Pis, now I have a decent idea that it is due to the ISP and the lack of a lens hood.

  • @zer0b0t
    @zer0b0t 5 днів тому

    nice

  • @scalt8367
    @scalt8367 6 днів тому

    Great scott

  • @russellzauner
    @russellzauner 7 днів тому

    Have you covered something like the FLIR Lepton platform? I've played with them before and they're pretty cool.

  • @rangefreewords
    @rangefreewords 7 днів тому

    -that's cool-

  • @-iIIiiiiiIiiiiIIIiiIi-
    @-iIIiiiiiIiiiiIIIiiIi- 7 днів тому

    15:12 Queue "George Baker- Little Green Bag"

  • @EliteTactical
    @EliteTactical 7 днів тому

    I've never built anything like this but want to. I want something small like this but also able to be very rugged. Could you not just break those pogo pin things off? What do they do ?

  • @philroo1
    @philroo1 7 днів тому

    If crowd funding reduces the risk for the manufacturer it'll hopefully encourage more adventurous product development. Though slightly awkward position for content creators.

  • @moodyone99
    @moodyone99 7 днів тому

    Great Scott

  • @AWriterWandering
    @AWriterWandering 7 днів тому

    14:33 this is where a lens hood would come in handy

  • @zeevkotzer549
    @zeevkotzer549 8 днів тому

    How about trying A SBC NAS based on Odroid H3? It has 2x2.5Gb network and on board 2xSATA and m.2 slot. With NIC bonding can give 5Gb, and with ZFS with 2HDDs and cache+log on the NVME can be give huge volume + great performence

  • @mitchellsmith4601
    @mitchellsmith4601 8 днів тому

    Established companies use Kickstarter so they get the money up front.

  • @pixelkay2004
    @pixelkay2004 8 днів тому

    thanks!!

  • @kLJiga
    @kLJiga 9 днів тому

    Hello! Does the camera have a module, or is it just a sensor attached direct to the MIPI? Thank you.

  • @wmatte91
    @wmatte91 9 днів тому

    I LOVE this mini-rack! I am wondering if there exists some cases for a mini rack as that one that have the 3.5 or 5.25 inches bay!

    • @Level2Jeff
      @Level2Jeff 9 днів тому

      So far I haven't found one. I've asked a few of these companies, and they mentioned a 10" rack disk shelf could be a possibility... we'll see, but don't hold your breath!

    • @wmatte91
      @wmatte91 9 днів тому

      @@Level2Jeff thank you for the answer, Jeff! Ps: that thing that creators directly respond to their community is... Awesome!! Greetings from Italy (:

  • @robertsaul7772
    @robertsaul7772 9 днів тому

    They may be using a kickstarter to gauge the demand while generating funding at the same time. This could help save on R&D instead of diverting funds from existing production and lessen the risk.

  • @jonassaso
    @jonassaso 9 днів тому

    OMG... I thought the sound of rain is just from your video but it rained here also while I was watching your video...

    • @Level2Jeff
      @Level2Jeff 9 днів тому

      Ha, you're the second person that said that! Apparently this video causes random rainstorms to pop up :D

  • @ewasteredux
    @ewasteredux 9 днів тому

    Jeff, never thought I would see the day when you let the shirt hit the fan. Great video!

    • @Level2Jeff
      @Level2Jeff 9 днів тому

      Things get wild on 3rd channel!

  • @vincei4252
    @vincei4252 9 днів тому

    In the past couple months I've bought a bunch of ZWO astronomy cameras with these Sony sensors. A couple of them come with a fisheye lens by default. They are a lot more expensive considering a couple of the models have peltier coolers in them.

    • @Level2Jeff
      @Level2Jeff 9 днів тому

      I do wonder about long-term cooling with the Darksee especially. I haven't run it for more than an hour or two yet, and it does get a little toasty!

  • @vincei4252
    @vincei4252 9 днів тому

    I just started watching and at every point where you mentioned the weather I was having the same here in Connecticut. When you mentioned the thunder I was having the same, I could have been fooled that it was a live stream and you were just around the corner from me. Interestingly enough 10:30 EST 05/23/2024 there is a severer weather alert here in the tri state area.

  • @adrianscarlett
    @adrianscarlett 9 днів тому

    Was really hoping for some testing in dark environments to see its capabilities...

    • @Level2Jeff
      @Level2Jeff 9 днів тому

      I'm hoping to test this in a few environments soon-I have only been able to test in the studio and in my basement for a few hours, and it's not like night-vision (it's not like some of the high end Sony/Canon cameras that can pull photons out of the void, seemingly), but it gets a pretty good image with very little light (just one 10W LED bulb in my workshop gave a legible image), and I want to see how it performs for astrophotography especially.

  • @adrianscarlett
    @adrianscarlett 9 днів тому

    I've been waiting for someone to get their hands on one of these. The imx678 has been available for ages, but only in dashcams, as far as I can tell. Still waiting for them to appear in security cameras, but I'd much prefer to roll my own using a pi because the interface every camera I've tried is just abysmal.

  • @DustinShort
    @DustinShort 9 днів тому

    I got in the DAS keyboard Kickstarter years ago. Das had a cool idea and were already a well established keyboard company. It was like a year before I got the product and it is the worst mech keyboard I've ever owned (random keys still get stuck regularly requiring unplugging). They never did a recall and firmware has yet to fix the issue. I don't trust any Kickstarter these days because of a well respected GERMAN company can't deliver a quality product in their core line of business.... Then it's just gambling for any campaign

  • @elementalmp4
    @elementalmp4 9 днів тому

    I'm not sure if you know, but if you pull on the feet of the mini tripod the legs extend outwards and it becomes a bit more stable

    • @Level2Jeff
      @Level2Jeff 9 днів тому

      I was trying to do that, they weren't budging beyond how far I had them pulled out. It could be they were just cut a bit rough, but I wasn't even able to fold one of the legs back in.

  • @Bigtonymullins
    @Bigtonymullins 9 днів тому

    Does that little tripod not have extending legs?

  • @kevinshumaker3753
    @kevinshumaker3753 9 днів тому

    Forgot to mark it as 'sponsored', sir...

  • @theonlynafester
    @theonlynafester 9 днів тому

    those legs extend on that tripod, pull the feet gently I use it for things on an angle, but it'll be an odd pyramid though..

  • @CriticallyInsane
    @CriticallyInsane 9 днів тому

    i saw your cameo on smarter every day and it made me super pumped. appreciate you, jeff!

  • @chrisdixon5241
    @chrisdixon5241 9 днів тому

    Also not a fan of the Kickstarter approach to bankrolling a project from an established company. I wonder how well this would work hooked up in place of an eyepiece on a telescope to image planets - Astroberry is a great project for that but I haven't seen anyone trying to use Pi cameras with it... can you even set the imaging speed and ISO to levels that would allow it with the Pi camera libraries?

  • @craftkiller9627
    @craftkiller9627 9 днів тому

    "What is that, a ghost?" - Jeff literally seconds after criticizing pytorch's image recognition :-P

  • @fu1r4
    @fu1r4 9 днів тому

    7:20 That tripod is working perfect if you handle it correct ...

  • @steveiliop56
    @steveiliop56 9 днів тому

    How does arducam get the picase design files?

  • @edwald4056
    @edwald4056 9 днів тому

    Participating in a Kickstarter project is like being an 'angel investor'. If it crashes and burns, in most cases, so does all your money. The creator might refund some, if they have any left. So when an 'established' company does Kickstarter projects, am like nope. You are not testing the waters with my money.

  • @TheMostOrdinaryPersonOnEarth
    @TheMostOrdinaryPersonOnEarth 9 днів тому

    Why do all Raspberry Pi cameras get that pink aura around them? I thought it was just a product of the AliExpress ones I brought but these seem to have the same issue

    • @Level2Jeff
      @Level2Jeff 9 днів тому

      Usually has to do with the lenses more than anything. Unlike even modestly-priced lenses for dedicated cameras, most of these C-mount lenses (especially the ones under $100) have fairly poor coatings / aberration control, so the edges especially get chromatic aberration, distortion, ghosting, etc.

    • @TheMostOrdinaryPersonOnEarth
      @TheMostOrdinaryPersonOnEarth 8 днів тому

      @@Level2Jeff Hey thats cool, I'm basically a smart phone only kind of person for photos. I paid 6-10 bucks for mine so I wasn't going to complain but when I saw these ones I thought it was odd. Thanks!

  • @Fenrasulfr
    @Fenrasulfr 9 днів тому

    This would be fun to try out as a camera for streaming or filming videos.

  • @morsikpl
    @morsikpl 9 днів тому

    What kickstarter does for companies that already has some success is - give them information that people actually want this product. This seems like great way to verify market and gather some money for that specific new product that doesn't exists yet.

  • @erickjoseph895
    @erickjoseph895 9 днів тому

    Jeff, what extension did you use on UA-cam to get this design 1:37?

    • @Level2Jeff
      @Level2Jeff 9 днів тому

      The 'UA-cam is making the layout change for no reason' extension :D I like the old way better, with the comments below the video. Not sure why they stuff all the metadata on the right side now.

    • @eDoc2020
      @eDoc2020 6 днів тому

      @@Level2Jeff I'm fortunate enough not to have this update yet but it probably won't be too long. I think the real goal of the change is to swap the comments and suggested videos. I can imagine why they'd do something that devotes more space to suggested videos: Comments don't make money but clicking on videos shows new ads.

  • @richardwatkins6725
    @richardwatkins6725 9 днів тому

    @Level2Jeff great review and a beautifully impractical lens from that axis.... The Pivistation idea is neat, the mount and no messing with the flexi cable. POE+ or POE++ is the way to go if the case has cooling. That Fisheye lens is nice but maybe have a chat with CommonLands optics in San Diego they do some great and low cost lenses especially M12 low or no distortion with good FOV, short focal lengths for the Pi Camera HQ, sorry Arducam if you sell similar but i couldn't find any on your website. That classic line of don't worry about that noise its just my shirt getting caught in the fan.... 😂😧 Classic RedShirt Jeff move. You had better make an Emergency Power Stop button for the Shop on a utility Belt....

  • @themacbookgamer
    @themacbookgamer 9 днів тому

    4:30 I've been considering buying a big usb powered noctua fan to use as a desk fan like that one in the top left. Does it work well?

    • @Level2Jeff
      @Level2Jeff 9 днів тому

      It does! I've done it for years now, the main downside is it falls over if you bump it. But you could 3D print or screw in a little piece of wood to stabilize it... or Noctua actually released a custom desk stand for fans now too!

  • @brinkoo7
    @brinkoo7 9 днів тому

    I am far from a camera/optical expert. I have a tenuous grasp on this topic at best. but on the topic of all sky cameras matched with such small aperture lenses and higher megapixels... aren't we just losing resolution? My only real experience is with astrophotography, and the real resolution (angular resolution) comes down to the aperture and never the megapixels. For my all sky cameras i just use 1 megapixel cameras with tiny fish eye lenses. 8 megapixel seems a bit much but please correct me if I am way off base here.

    • @brinkoo7
      @brinkoo7 9 днів тому

      TLDR i don't know MATH 😂.. but i want to learn more on this topic

    • @Level2Jeff
      @Level2Jeff 9 днів тому

      There are different ways to get the same final resolution and clarity, from stacking images (like with autostakkert) to having a wide aperture / sharp lens and lots of megapixels, but night sky in particular can cause issues with any setup.