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08/07/2010 Post about very exciting and challenging application of the cameras is published on Elphel Development Blog
08/04/2010 We noticed a hardware problem in the 10359 (both revisions: 0 and A) boards and will be repairing or replacing these boards for our customers who have them. The rework is rather simple - it is described on our wiki, you may be able to perform it yourself. Sorry for the inconvenience.
07/18/2010 Eyesis camera is assembled and recorded fist imagery during a test run
06/21/2010 Elphel held a workshop in Bordeaux during RMLL 2010 from 6th to 11th of July 2010
12/14/2009 GStreamer now supports JP4 live video and post-processing from Elphel cameras: See Wiki
10/10/2009 Elphel at Utah Open Source Conference 2009 - October 08-10, 2009
09/10/2009 Next generation camera Elphel 373 hardware nearing completion.
03/20/2009 The map of Elphel cameras in the world is ONLINE now.
02/06/2009 Two new Elphel articles are published in LinuxDevices magazine.
- "Elphel camera under the hood: from Verilog to PHP" describes the internals of Elphel cameras,
- "How many bits are really needed in the image pixels?" discusses what information can be obtained from each image pixel and why gamma correction is important regardless of the characteristics of the monitors
01/21/2009 Elphel line of cameras will not be influenced by the future discontinuation of Axis ETRAX FS processors.
Recently Axis Communications announced that their ETRAX line of processors is going to be discontinued in 2010. That fact will not influence the line of Elphel cameras - we are already working on the next camera system board design that will be mechanically and electrically compatible with the current 10353 boards, use most of the same software and FPGA code but have different CPU. Current 10369 boards are already designed in anticipation of that future CPU upgrade and incorporate USB 2.0 hub not supported by the Axis ETRAX FS. Of course that new system board will also use the next generation of the Xilinx Spartan FPGA, have more and faster memory, faster network connection. And there will be significant overlap in the manufacturing and support of the current model 353 cameras and the next generation ones.
01/18/2009 Elphel is now offering Asus EEE Box computer with preinstalled development environment for Elphel model 353 series cameras. Installation is based on Kubuntu 8.10 and includes all the needed packages and applications, you'll be able to start customizing your camera code even if you are new to GNU/Linux.
The project code is managed with KDevelop IDE (see screenshot), we also include FPGA development software
- Xilinx WebPack (requires registration with Xilinx) that allows you to run your code in the camera FPGA
- Icarus Verilog Simulator and GTKWave waveform viewer
And of course there are viewers that have all the needed patches applied so the can handle high resolution video recorded with Elphel cameras.
12/23/2008 Elphel sponsors Team Frednet participating in Lunar X PRIZE on it's race to the moon.
07/05/2008 Elphel 10369A interface boards with USB/SATA/CF/RS232 are now available. More details in the LinuxDevices article "Open source camera records geotagged video to SATA HDD"
06/23/2008 Elphel is filming RMLL 2008 (9-th Libre Software Meeting) conferences with Elphel NC353L network cameras.
04/16/2008 Elphel Model 353 camera used with 10369 interface board was used to film geotagged video - see examples
08/17/2007 All software and FPGA code code developed at Elphel is relicensed under GNU GPL Version 3 that better suits application of Free software to the hardware products.
08/17/2007 Elphel presentation at Google Tech Talks
07/19/2007 Elphel Model 353 is FCC part 15 compliant - testing of the Elphel model 353 camera performed by Communication Certification Laboratory (CCL) has found that it does meet FCC part 15 requirements for class A Verification. Tests were performed to measure radiated and conducted electromagnetic interference generated by the cameras when operated with specified settings.
02/28/2007 Preliminary documentation for the Elphel models 353/353 cameras hardware is now available
353/363 cameras use software based on Linux kernel 2.6 (currently - 2.6.15). There will be more changes in software as we used different web server (lighttpd) and included PHP (as fastCGI application).
More information and software will follow, you may find code here:
* elphel353 software package @ Sourceforge
* CVS @ Sourceforge
05/20/2006 Elphel has moved to a new office. Here is a live view of Salt Lake City from one of the model 333 cameras on the roof above the office. Another camera looks North-West from the same point.
04/20/2006 Meet Elphel team members at LinuxTag 2006 (May 3-6, 2006) in Wiesbaden, Germany. We will show you our cameras in booth 117
update: Elphel booth at LinuxTag 2006 - view from the model 333 cameras
03/02/2006 Live CD and DVD for Elphel cameras is released - you may download CD image from Sourceforge or request DVD from Elphel. This release is based on Knoppix 4.0.2 and includes new web control software and DVR server.
12/26/2005 Камера модели 333 теперь может работать с 5-ти мегапиксельным сенсором Kodak kac-5000.
10/12/2005 Elphel Wiki is online
07/16/2005 Knoppix-based Live CD (v 1.4.0h) (MD5) supports both 313 and 333 camera models.

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