Elphel

{{Short description|Camera manufacturer}}

File:Elphel-Camera-353.jpg

Elphel, Inc. designs and manufactures open hardware and free software cameras.{{Citation | url=http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/12/open_source_hardware_2009_-_the_def.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091219023248/http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/12/open_source_hardware_2009_-_the_def.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=December 19, 2009 | title=Open source hardware 2009 - The definitive guide to open source hardware projects in 2009 | publisher=Make | year=2009 | accessdate=November 23, 2010}}{{Citation | url=http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/elphel-camera | title=Elphel camera: free software and open hardware | publisher=Free Software Foundation | year=2009 | accessdate=March 31, 2013}} The company was founded in 2001 by Russian physicist Andrey Filippov, who emigrated to the US in 1995.{{Citation|url=http://www3.elphel.com/andrey_filippov_intro |title=Andrey N. Filippov |publisher=Elphel Inc. |accessdate=August 28, 2011 }}

File:NC393 multisensor camera kit, for developers.jpeg

Elphel cameras have been used to capture images for Google Street View{{cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/tjmccue/2013/10/21/google-trekker-camera-walks-you-through-arlington-mt-fuji-galapagos/#31daa803f38c|title=Google Trekker Camera Walks You Through Arlington, Mt Fuji, Galapagos|last=McCue|first=TJ|date=October 21, 2013|work=Forbes|accessdate=2 November 2017}} and the Google Books project.{{Citation | url= http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2007/08/weekly-google-code-roundup-for-august.html | title = Google Code Blog | contribution = Weekly Google Code Roundup | date = August 10, 2007 | accessdate = November 22, 2010}} The Moss Landing Marine Laboratories use Elphel cameras in their project called Submersible Capable of Under Ice Navigation and Imaging (SCINI) – an NSF-funded research project for robotic under the sea ice for surveying and exploration in Antarctica.{{Citation |url=http://iceaged2010.mlml.calstate.edu/scini/ |publisher=Cal state |title=Ice Aged Project |contribution=Engineering |year=2010 |accessdate=November 23, 2010 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100722093600/http://iceaged2010.mlml.calstate.edu/scini/ |archivedate=July 22, 2010 }}