An interesting project to design and develop a 3D structured light camera around a nvidia jetson, camera and projector.

What part did you design? I used an IMX8, and had issues with the CSI-MIPI RX, the fifo kept overflowing and crashing the AXI bridge, which could only be fixed by rebooting the SoC, such a pain!

Posted a nice rant about NXP and the system here crashed.

It was the Kinetis MKL27.

Bottom line is avoid NXP due to broken parts, poor documentation, no errata's, poor support and poor delivery (still getting quotes into 2025).

A quick article comparing the intel realsense D435 which uses active stereo to measure depth vs a iToF camera made by my startup Chronoptics.

Maybe Intel is developing a new chip architecture and want to support linux from day 0? Or does Intel want a team of Kernel developers for their AI Silicon play, support the lower level architecture, or for their GPU play?

ST is adding to it's depth sensor portfolio, added iToF image sensors, which compliments it's single point dToF sensors.

Got to take credit after it is successful, but if it was a flop blame the external agency.

A tutorial introduction to the direct Time-of-Flight (dToF) signal chain and typical artifacts introduced due to detector and processing electronic limitations.

Short of a dot-com burst I don't see a glut of software engineers. However, as the career prospects are better known there are more people thinking they want to be a software developer, will this increase the talent pool and decrease demand?

I think the long term trend will be good for software people but I think something like the dotcom crash is due. There are way too many questionable startups only made possible by excessive investment money floating around. I was around in 2000 and once investment started drying up only a little the whole house of cards came down because a lot of companies "sold" unprofitable products to other unprofitable companies. I think the situation is very similar now.

I feel like this has already been happening for years... probably longer than that. I find a lot of the people I work with were pulled away from other industries. Some industries are over-represented, like science, engineering, education.

I think amount of people who are capable of and willing to do software development is limited. Most "normal" people I know would hate the job.

There are plenty of other 3D depth cameras out there, just not with the brand recognition of Intel, and now the quick and easy purchase of one unit at $200USD.

Makes sense, if you have a product where you can make a profit on the manufacturing, why would you stop supply. Intel never broke out Realsense in any public finical data, I wonder if the R&D was not profitable, and is not a core part of Intel's business so the new CEO decided to shut it down.