Otto: Programmable camera

Otto features a high scalability, it also encourages users to crack and transform the product. Article | Michael Frankotto may be the first camera to be designed around Instagram. Sure, your smartphone can also use Instagram to share app apps to take photos, but Otto is more like a social media tailor. In the default mode, the Otto camera can take a static image with a f aperture glass lens and a 1/4-inch CMOS sensor and produce our well-known GIF images (Image Interchange Format). For GIF pictures, we must have seen a lot of it. You can use a GoPro motion camera or a digital SLR camera to make GIF, but Otto is easier to operate. There is a crank at the top of the camera, so just rotate the crank clockwise to take a picture. After you start shooting, if you want to make adjustments to the subject, you can stop the spin crank to pause the photo shoot. For example, if you want to take a picture of a kitten's dress, the process is this: kitten, kitten and shoe, kitten, shoe, party hat, kitten clutching its clothes. All right? Then you just rotate the crank in the opposite direction, and a GIF is done, and then this move can be immediately sent to your phone and synchronized to a different social media. In addition, Otto cameras can take slow motion and micro-speed video, and can be quickly sent to iOS or Android smartphones via Otto's built-in Wi-Fi LAN feature. The Otto Camera, produced by next Thing Co, located in Oakland, California, is expected to be available in December this year, at $249.99. The Otto camera is built with only the card size of the raspberry pie open source microcomputer, it can support many device systems, such as the public art system or DIY home alarm system and so on. The Otto camera developer chooses the raspberry pie precisely because it can personalize the program. Thomasdeckert, co-founder of Next Thing, said the camera is functionally scalable. The author suggested to Deckert that the Bluetooth Le sensor can be connected to the USB interface of the Otto camera, so the shutter of the camera can be triggered under many conditions, such as the change of ambient temperature, the speed of the user's heartbeat, or even the motion of a radio-activated toothbrush. Deckert seemed interested in these fanciful ideas. The only controller on the Otto camera is the shutter and the crank. In addition to its matching mobile phone app application is the initial system, supporting a variety of parameter adjustment. Deckert expressed the hope that more people can participate in the development of Otto, so as the user base growth, product features will be further expanded. Can you hack into the Nexus Phone program for personalized programming? RightIn the case of large electronic hardware brands, they do not encourage users to be creative, nor do they like people to do things that are out of line with the hardware and programs of the product. But Otto is not, they encourage users to innovate, the product to crack and transform. Translation | Tino