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Twenty months to ship a tiny SLAM camera

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Twenty months to ship a tiny SLAM camera

From an ESP32 prototype that ran out of memory to a 10g camera running SLAM onboard. Asad Memon · October 2024–July 2026 · From first prototypes to Batch 1 The production board: camera, IMU, and compute in one package. I wanted SLAM for my hobby robot without adding a companion computer. The challenge was fitting visual-inertial odometry and loop closure onto a tiny, low-power camera board—and getting it to run in real time within the available compute and memory. That became Mighty. It runs the estimation onboard and outputs position and orientation over USB or UART, so even an…

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