Using decapped DRAM chip as photo sensor looks more promising:<p><a href="https://hackaday.com/2014/04/05/taking-pictures-with-a-dram-chip/" rel="nofollow">https://hackaday.com/2014/04/05/taking-pictures-with-a-dram-...</a>
Visually, I'm reminded of this project. <a href="https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2017/02/drinking-straw-camera/" rel="nofollow">https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2017/02/drinking-straw-camera...</a><p>I know CCDs for astrophotography have large photosites to increase the signal/noise ratio. It seems like this array would have the same qualities.<p>Do you know what the dynamic range is, how many stops the sensor can capture?<p>This is really interesting, so I'd really like to see a write-up instead of just a video.
Well done. The quality of explanation and production value were good. It seems like by adding more processing power, you can double or triple the scan rate.
I bet by changing up the sensor pixels this would be a pretty cost effective way of making a low res FLIR camera, or really any imaging band. Using a different pin hole you might even be able to image things with xrays, neutrons, or strong 100Ghz through THz radio waves.
Instead of a front lens element you might get better results using a lens salvaged from an old medium format folder. The whole lens and shutter assembly comes off as a single standard sized unit.<p>These should be a good fit for the needed image circle and give better images as well.