grk wrote: ↑Mon May 13, 2019 2:53 pm
I just assembled my backer kit, and noticed two things.
1) The camera cable connector on the StereoPi board nearest the power connector was broken, in that the retainer on one end of the fixator was damaged. This was not a show stopper, and I was able to insert and clamp the cable adequately.
grk, could you please send me a photo of this broken connector? If it is a factory defect, we need to discuss replacement.
grk wrote: ↑Mon May 13, 2019 2:53 pm
2) More problematic is that the camera modules (on both of the kit supplied ones) are not attached to the camera PCB - they are just dangling at the end of the short (~5mm) flex cable. This would make stability a slight problem.
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[None of the several RasPi cameras I have are unattached.]
As Blinky mentioned, actually your cameras has two-sided sticky tape on them. One part is sticked to the small camera module, and another side has a piece of paper sticked to it. You can remove this piece of paper and stick your camera to PCB.
You see, this unsticked camera has one advantage. You may disconnect camera module from the board.
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It is important thing for doing hardware-synced pair of V1 cams. After disconnecting camera module from PCB you can solder out quartz from PCB without damaging camera sensor. We will do it in our future experiment (and, as usuak, will do an article about this trick).
grk wrote: ↑Mon May 13, 2019 2:53 pm
Other than that, all went well, and the kit displays dual images on the HDMI monitor as expected during the initial power-on.
I would appreciate one of the StereoPi team contacting me about the camera attachment issue.
Thanks,
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