Project Gigapixel
By Andrew Gregory. Posted
One of this author’s first jobs was scanning film transparencies for a publishing company, and using an early version of Photoshop to edit out the scratches that had been caused by the transparencies having been kept in a shoebox seemingly full of grit. The scanner in question was a large box containing, among other things, a CCD (Charge-Coupled Device) optical sensor. It was slow and fiddly, but in the early 2000s it was still better than the digital cameras of the time.
In the quest for ever greater image resolution, some enterprising hardware hackers have tried taking the CCDs out of scanners and repackaging them into high-resolution, though bulky cameras. With this project Yannick is going several steps further than this, by reverse-engineering the CCD so that a Raspberry Pi 5 can interface with the sensor assembly directly, replacing all other components of the original scanner with a custom implementation – including a snazzy 3D printed body.
Features Editor Andrew trawls the internet for Cool Stuff while keeping the magazine running smoothly.
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