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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ben321" data-source="post: 493037" data-attributes="member: 40708">But where do you get the parts? The machine tools (you gotta build a case too,  not just the circuits)? How do you read out a CCD chip? What is the minimum number of required electronic components needed to do read out a CCD? Where do you buy a standalone CCD chip (I know not at Radio Shack)? And a lot more questions than this come to mind, when thinking about how to build a digital camera from scratch.Might be easier to just flash the firmware of a Nikon DSLR camera with hacked firmware. I don't think the specs I've asked for are beyond the limits of the hardware in most of the Nikon DSLR cameras. It would just be a matter of flashing the firmware with modded firmware, to enable the features that I want. But I've never found any customized firmware for any Nikon camera. Are all the owners of Nikon DSLR cameras not hackers, and are all hackers not owners of Nikon DSLR cameras, such that the hackers never have a chance to try to make their own firmware? Or are they just so afraid of voiding their warranty that they don't take on the task? Lots of other devices have hacked firmware available, and I'm sure it voids their warrenty. Is Nikon firmware encrypted with military grade AES-256 encryption or something, so that it is for all practical purposes unhackable? I've never seen any hacked Nikon firmware on the internet, ever, at all.</blockquote>