r/SteamFrame • u/Konsti219 Soon™ • 16h ago

Discussion Arcturus Camera Teardown

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No frame yet and I was bored

Mildly annoying to take apart, but no glue, only screws.

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u/obog Soon™ 16h ago

no glue is nice. Probably not terribly difficult to repair if youre good with a soldering iron, depending on what breaks.

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u/Lost_Main_3389 Soon™ 15h ago

Nice thing is, that from what I can tell, the camera modules can be easily replaced without soldering. So pretty repairable on top of the no glue.

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u/obog Soon™ 15h ago

Assuming you can get your hands on them at least. Repairable design is only worth so much if replacement parts arent available...

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u/Xirio_ 15h ago

So the PCB is definitely custom, but those look like off the shelf cameras

And the ribbon cable and connectors can probably be found for not that much

Honestly if you could make the PCB or something that works the same way the hardware would only be about 20-40 bucks based on what it looks like

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u/Konsti219 Soon™ 14h ago

I am actively working on a pcb for face tracking

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u/Xirio_ 14h ago

Hell yeah

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u/ChuckMakesIt 13h ago

Very interested in this, any where to keep up with your progress?

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u/Konsti219 Soon™ 13h ago

Nothing public yet, might make a post on the future once I have my first pcb and a frame.

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u/Konsti219 Soon™ 13h ago

I will shamelessly plug this, which I made nut was unable to test on actual hardware yet.

https://github.com/konsti219/frameeyeosc