On Mon, 5 Nov 2001, Mike Ford wrote:
> >The MicronEye was in production for a very short time as far as
> >I know. It claimed to use a "video RAM" - a light sensitive
> >RAM that they claim they discovered by accident. The MicronEye
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> Micron is the big memory maker, parent of Crucial etc. and a long time ago
> in a place far away Steve Ciarcia of Circuit Cellar Ink wrote of series of
> project articles on using a I think, 64k ram chip as a video camera. IIRC
> Micron was convinced to make a batch with a clear plastic resin, or maybe
> just in a eprom body, but a number of little projects and products grew out
> of it. I "believe" you can still buy them new, but haven't looked in some
> time.
>
> Here is a link, but I didn't find specifics on the Microneye.
> http://www.circuitcellar.com/
>
Just for interest, I found the MicroMint version of this for the Apple
][ at TRW years ago.. I thought at the time it would make a nice 'C' mount
lens extension barrel. It had the card, original software and manual. It
sat on a shelf in my lab, forgotten,for years, until I got into
classiccmping, and *then* I realized exactly what it was. I have a pic of
it that I could send if someone needs visual regognition.
The device now resides in Germany somewhere, deep in a secret warehouse,
gaurded by Dobermans. No one really knows what's in there, save one
deranged German Engineer, but he will not talk about it much.
c'est la vie.
Cheers
John
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Received on Mon Nov 05 2001 - 21:38:00 GMT