# Bookmarked: The modern 4k iSight - featuring the brain of an Opal Tadpole

- Author: @gurupanguji
- Date: 2025-08-12
- URL: https://gurupanguji.com/blog/2025/08/12/the-modern-4k-isight-featuring-the-brain-of-an-opal-tadpole/
- Categories: link, technology
- Tags: camera, engineering, hardware, opal, tadpole, webcam

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<p>Read the <a href="https://mastodon.design/@rafa/114853078579169938#.">whole thread</a>. My notes:</p>
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<li>The Opal team have engineered for scale, repairability and upgradability for their own purposes</li>
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<li>This makes my heart fill with joy when I see that good engineering makes life for the company and their customers easier. </li>
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<li>With modern chips, it would have been very easy for Opal to have put a check to make sure that <em>only</em> their camera modules would pass a check to continue working. I am so happy they didn't. </li>
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