Twenty Months to Ship a 10g SLAM Camera, From ESP32 Prototype to Batch 1
_asadmemon · x · 2026-09-15
Indie maker Asad Memon recounts squeezing visual-inertial odometry and loop closure onto a low-power camera board over 20 months: an ESP32 prototype hit a memory wall; the shipping Mighty board packs camera, IMU and compute into 10g, outputs pose at 20Hz over USB/UART usable by Arduino robots, and reached Batch 1 shipping.
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