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KUROKESU
Company blog · kurokesu.com/mainhardwareprogrammingscience
KUROKESU is the company blog at kurokesu.com, writing about hardware, programming and science. Since 2016, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “Big Brother and Others Are Watching Your Car”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-12-21, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Kurokesu posts and its shop on camera topics: C-mount lens kits for webcams, raw Bayer sensor data and demosaicing, and a 2016 long-range license plate recognition post. The comments give no opinion on the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Big Brother and Others Are Watching Your Car2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-09-08
What Hacker News says?
Only tangentially related but if you already have a popular Logitech webcam (like the C920) chances are you can find a kit to mount C/CS/D-mount lenses on it, like with this one: https://www.kurokesu.com/shop/C920_REWORK_KIT2 C/CS/D mounts are for CCTV camera so you can find new and used lens for cheap. They will not fix a cheap/bad sensor, but they will definitely get you extra flexibility in what kind of framing/s…
Comment linking /shop/C920_REWORK_KIT2
on “Using a "proper" camera as a webcam”Submitted 3D scanning like a pro as a story · 141 points
HN discussionYou're talking about processed color frames. The GP was suggesting that the camera stream the raw sensor data, which doesn't have individual color channels, just a monochrome grid with 10 or 12 bits of usable data per pixel. A bayer filter[0] is placed in front of the sensor so that a given color of light falls on each cell. The USB host would be responsible for applying a demosaicing[0] algorithm to create the colo…
Comment linking /shop/cameras/CAMUSB1
on “USB Cheat Sheet”Submitted DIY thermal vision shoots 360° panoramas as a story · 89 points
HN discussionClickable link for convenience: http://kurokesu.com/main/2016/08/29/long-range-license-plate...
Comment linking /main/2016/08/29/long-range-license-plate-recognition/
on “Long range license plate recognition from 500m”Submitted Dumb thermometer gets digital output as a story · 20 points
HN discussionSubmitted With this simple hack you will get your Logitech Brio 4K webcam CS lens mount as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted 18x optical zoom lens/USB camera kit with open source SDK is now available as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Probably smallest 1080p h264 USB camera for embedded projects as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Complete guide for pedestrian detection using YOLOv3 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Accurately measure height with microscope as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using interchangeable lenses with Logitech Brio 4K webcam as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Playing with expensive tools (double checking filter transmission charts) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Controller allows using almost any zoom/focus/iris lens with your USB camera as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Big Brother and Others Are Watching Your Car as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Heatmap motion analysis of autonomous robot as a story · 1 points
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