Digital Spy Camera Pen Reverse Engineering

: Description : Reverse engineer the download and post-processing of images from a "digital spy pen"

: Status : Dormant

( See also : Reverse Engineering, PyX86)

I first mentioned my digital spy pen purchase on my blog, the device is pictured here:

This page documents my efforts to download and post-process the images taken without the use of the supplied Windows application.

In the process I started a project to emulate a subset of X86 ISA in Python.

Notes

Code

• @@TODO: Upload code.

Links

Hardware

• Google Search for image microcontroller PAC107 PAC107 Datasheet

Image decoding

• Pixel Grouping for Color Filter Array Demosaicing
• RGB "Bayer" Color and MicroLenses
• Demosaicing
• Understanding Digital Camera Sensors
• How to get color images: Bayer Pattern Concepts