What's with the entire dev board crammed in there? Is that... normal? What board is it?

daemonologist 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It appears to be a Teensy 3.2

The "carrier" that everything rides on within the housing is clearly FDM printed as well. I assume these cameras (rated to 6,000 meters) are rather low volume products.

	▲	buildbot 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It honestly makes sense. You are paying for the pressure engineering, and can take advantage of an off the shelf camera system. Maybe use a special lens or filter or something but why bother customizing the software/hardware of the camera much. They probably should still know what it's doing though...

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quamserena 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I have seen engineers slap Teensies on a PCB and call it a day, so it’s definitely normal. It’s faster than having to route your MCU, USB, debugger, etc. manually, so there isn’t really a drawback as long as it physically fits there.

	▲	15155 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> It’s faster than having to route your MCU Common misconception. A handful of capacitors, SPI NOR flash, an inductor, and a crystal is way easier to place and route than a restrictive module that completely disables your ability to use SWD/JTAG on an otherwise excellent MCU.

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duskwuff 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The small board on the left is unmistakably a Teensy 3.2:

https://www.pjrc.com/store/teensy32.html

As to what it's doing in there, I have no idea.

	▲	djmips 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Well, I'll be darned! I wonder if Paul Stoffregen knows about that! edit: probably? It was posted at the Teensy forum about a month ago. https://forum.pjrc.com/index.php?threads/the-deepest-teensy....

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whalesalad 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Looks like a pi zero