Fishy8

Fishy8

PCB with vintage camera looking footage. A microphone and a fisheye lens.

Okay, name explained first FISHeYe lens + hi8 = FISHY8! Original name was FISH8 but FISHY8 sounds more jolly.

Why have i made this?

Those old sony handycams are increndibly hard to get. Except if you live near the old camera market in barcelona (I still hate that it wasnt open when i was there.), so, why not make one that costs a one time payment of max 120 bucks, and doesnt require extra additions like those 100 dollar converters. but has a 15 dollar converter inside of it! SSo its basically an old camcorder replacement, that i made myself!

What does it do?

The caddx ratel 2 (camera), is analog, thus producing cvbs footage. If we add a cvbs to usb c converter, we can make it 'act' like a webcam, and get that old, fissheye looking footage directly on our phone!

Disclaimer:

this project does not require any firmware, and gets over the 30 dollar limit. I will pay for it with my own money, therefore, the 30 bucks will help, but it wont be enough.

How to use it?

Well, basically just put all the cables where they belong (lol), use another usbc - usbc cable to plug your phone into the gracetop converter, and then use an external android camera app that can detect other sources to acutally film the footage. The included 'joystick', can control if you want your video to be ntsc or pal, and other on screen information, like time etc.

BOM

For the Bom file, please go here! Read the Bom file for this project.

(I dont really know how to link files, but i think it needs to be done like this)

I got a fpv camera with fisheye built in, for easyness: footage looks like this:

so, allat of yap. what does it look like?

PCB

SCHEMATIC

3D ehh not the pretties, but gets the job done LOL!

I am planning to make a 3d print later on, zo the additional components can snap on! It doesnt need any firmware, since android supports the gracetop cvbs to usb c natively.