I got an awesome gift on the mail today, four awesome SX70s to experiment that have been donated to the project by Pedro Viterbo od Maquinas de outros...

So after all the work, and almost in the last minute I have a fully-working Aladdin PCB! Light Meter Works!!!!

I have to admit that hate the lightmeter “SOB” BH1750 chip. It is a bitch to solder correctly.

I suspect that the soldermask is a bit off in...

Just a quick update. I have been trying to build my first OpenSX70 camera but I have failed for now.

One I don’t seem to be able to...

I have added captions explaining what I do on the video!

Basically all works. I cannot test the light meter because I couldn’t solder the damned chip! Will...

Finally got the time to start testing Aladdin.

Soldering the FPC is A ROYAL PAIN I could do it (sort of) on my second trial. But then I...

One day ahead of the scheduled date the new boards from JLCPCB have landed. Of course I have to test them.

The new “Aladdin-FPC” blue boards look stunning....

Things are busy in the openSX70 lab! A lot of news at the hardware and software fronts. Firstly and as previously reported the latest PCB that I had...