Trunk's Technical Blog

It's been a while since we performed a physical teardown of a GOPRO, but with the innovations in the new GOPRO MAX, a full teardown is warranted. This camera will allow you to get stabilized, immersive shots, with minimal post editing. Many other blogs have already reviewed the MAX's functionality, so we'll focus on the internal wizardry that makes it work. System's Components Housing The ABS plastic housing has a rubberized overmolding. It consists of two halves, sealed together by some sort of epoxy....

A quick summary of the design wins for the GoPro HERO8 (J-Bay). No significant electronic differences between the HERO7 and the HERO8. However small changes in hardware can make huge impacts on the system reliability and stabilization.  Updated IMU (inertial sensing) New power subsystem including yet unknown change to battery. This allows them to "boost" the processor / LDDR. The battery may have a higher discharge rate or temperature tolerance. (TBD) Faster MIMO enabled WiFi chipset Slimport driver for video over USB-C...

The DJI Osmo Action is taunted as the GoPro HERO7 Black killer so I had to purchase one and see how it compares. I am not sponsored by GoPro or DJI and have no skin in the game, so this is an unbiased review versus most of what you read on the internet. On it's release, I had only a few hours before a trip to put it through the ringer. At the consent of iFly Phx, I was able...

FOR SECURITY RESEARCH / Interoperability with our products.   Starting with the GoPro HERO5, the USB-C interface supports accessories such as a quick charger, a Mic adapter, and the Karma Drone/Grip. Briefly GoPro Inc. provided a developer program for access to this interface, but they soon dissolved that division as the company went south.  After some, (a lot), of research, we've found the developer program only allowed access to a subset of the Herobus™ 2.0 (HB) functionality. Although I haven't bought a third party...

The GoPro HERO7 White & Silver are completely different beasts from previous GoPro cameras. Based upon yet another image processor, Qualcomm Snapdragon 624, the architecture is a Qualcomm Snapdragon reference design with the GoPro application layer. Here is a quick psuedo-teardown of the GoPro HERO7 White & Silver.  Hardware Name Tasmania perhaps originally named Popoyo  Product name Code Name Cam ID GoPro HERO7 White Boomer H18.02 GoPro HERO7 Silver Badger H18.03 Design Wins Processor Qualcomm APQ8053 Snapdragon 624: Octa-Core, 8x ARM Cortex A53 Up To 1.80 GHz.  APQ8053-Lite GoPro HERO7 White...