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Re:Show HN: I made a tiny camera with super long battery life by 627467 on Monday June 03, 2024 @10:13PM (#40570037)
> should obviously be nearly completely agnostic

Is it obvious? Is it free (as in resources) to support agnostic platforms and systems? Is the threshold for making anything that it needs to be compatible with everything?

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Re:Show HN: I made a tiny camera with super long battery life by temp20240604 on Monday June 03, 2024 @10:41PM (#40570177)
In general, no.

However a security camera that works with all operating systems just needs to expose a drive via USB… as has been done for decades now.

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Re:Show HN: I made a tiny camera with super long battery life by romwell on Tuesday June 04, 2024 @02:02AM (#40571164)
Apparently, to take the processing off of the camera chip, the decision was to:

1. Not use a filesystem on the SD card;

2. Write RAW files only

This means software is needed to both transfer files, and to convert them into an image format.

Personally, I'd put that software on board, with extra dedicated hardware if necessary (it can be powered off of USB), and make the device appear as a massage storage device to a USB host.

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