• DepthAI-v2

  • First Boards Ordered! Modular Design in Progress

Hey everyone!

So we did it. We ORDERED our first boards. Man, low-volume pricing on tight-tolerance boards is so painful.

Fortunately we think our kids are crafty, so they won't need a college fund, right?

We're actually going with a modular approach from what we learned from this, so that we can make various hardware incarnations, which will all leverage the same Myriad X module.

That way we don't have to give up our kids' college funds every time we decide to change features/form-factor/etc.

So that's what we're currently working on. The current for the module are 2 x MIPI 4-lane which are usable as 4 x MIPI 2-lane and of course USB and all that jazz.

The idea is that this allows up to 4x 2-lane cameras, 1x 4-lane camera and 2x 2-lane cameras, or 2x 4-lane cameras.

Which we think should cover any/all permutations of the boards that this module will go on. If there's interest, we'll sell the module alone as well.

Thoughts?

Ha-ha...yeah. The cost for me to get 1 panel containing 20 of my 10 layer boards ended up being $10K. It's the price of 1 years worth of room and board at a state college.

So your design now has USB to connect to any type of SBC and a MIPI camera connect to connect to any type of camera sensor?

If so, that's a good design. Somebody might want a global shutter sensor (winkwink) while others would find rolling just fine.

How many are you getting from a panel?

    a month later

    hanooi Oh man sorry somehow I missed this one! Ya, super painful. And yes, it does have that. The hard part is tuning in the various sensors.

    We ended up just ordering 10 to start. The next round (the module) we'll do a whole panel, now that we know the yield will be better and we've simplified the design.

    Cheers,
    Brandon