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CLIC Handheld Digital Camera

January - May 2025

My undergraduate capstone project was building a portable digital camera from parts. I was the software lead, and wrote the firmware in C in an embedded Linux environment. Frameworks like V4L2 and OpenGL ES were central to the firmware, alongside obscure custom drivers for our display device.

I worked with three friends, who identified parts and designed the hardware and case. I worked closely with them to make sure we had the features we wanted with our limited resources, and to avoid compatibility problems. For example, captured photos can be saved to an external SD card, but only while WiFi is disabled since the SDIO interface shared resources with the wireless networking hardware.

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