2026 · Personal Project · Hardware × AI

The Camera for Creators

AI is being used redundantly — treated as post-production instead of embedded at capture. Voice is the most human part of art direction, yet execution waits until post.

Directors' creative decisions happen naturally on-set through voice — 'make it rain', 'bring up those highlights', 'make the flowers look more computer generated'. These are real-time creative calls happening in natural language, but execution gets deferred for hours, sometimes days.

A new kind of camera — one that listens on-set, no screen needed

Voice in. Image out. Real-time generative editing at the moment of capture. Costly post-production workflows collapse into 4-pence, 5-second voice prompts.

Camera lens, capture button, detail + mood dials, style switch — Deakins, Kubrick, or Yours.
Visual UI magic enhances perceived latency. Edge deployment handles actual latency. The Gemma model runs on-device — only cloud round-trips for generative edits with Nano Banana. Voice metadata trains the AI to become the creator's conversational collaborator.
Industrial design in Fusion 360 — from voice-first concept to physical form.
Build process
Sketching the lens hole — Ø10mm circle on the case faceDimensioning the lens hole — parametric placement from originLens hole cut through the case — PCB visible behindAssembled case — lens hole on top, port wall on sideStepped two-body design — main case stacked on battery compartmentPort wall — RJ45, dual USB 3.0, dual USB 2.0, measured at 40mmHollow case interior — Pi 5 visible through the port cutoutsExtrude operation — port cutouts in wireframe contextSlot detail sketch — Ø6.5mm dimension on the case sideDebugging a fillet error at a sharp cornerParametric variables — batteryWidth, batteryHeight, batteryDepthFinal assembly — main case and battery compartment together
At the moment of capture.
Year
2026
Role
Independent
Field
Hardware × AI Product
Built with
Raspberry Pi 5, Gemma 4 E2B, LiteRT, Fusion 360

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