Case study

opal-c1-revive: mapping the Opal C1 firmware and restoring camera controls

opal-c1-revive investigates the Opal C1 webcam's Myriad X hardware, 32 MB NOR flash and DepthAI pipeline. It documents the bootloader and app package, supplies scripts to back up flash and edit the pipeline, and provides a macOS menu-bar app for standard UVC controls.

Targets: Firmware
Category: Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06
Evidence class: C2 code & docs, no demo or download

Stars: 1
Last commit: 2026-10-26
Language: Swift

GitHub data as of 2026-11-10

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Evidence

Observed: Code and documentation observed; no download method or demo found.
Checked: 2026-11-08

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Requirements & limits

Prerequisites: An Opal C1 webcam is required for device operations; the app requires macOS 27 or newer and Xcode 27 to build.
Prerequisites: Flash scripts use depthai earlier than version 3; back up the camera flash before writing.
Limits: The face-detection-free pipeline was checked offline but had not been flashed, and UVC extension controls remained unexplored.
License: No licence file in the repository.

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BibTeX

@misc{opal-c1-revive-case,
  title = {{opal-c1-revive: mapping the Opal C1 firmware and restoring camera controls}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/mathieuletyrant/opal-c1-revive}},
  url = {https://github.com/mathieuletyrant/opal-c1-revive},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/opal-c1-revive-case/}}
}

Plain text

opal-c1-revive: mapping the Opal C1 firmware and restoring camera controls. https://github.com/mathieuletyrant/opal-c1-revive (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/opal-c1-revive-case/

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README.md GitHub · mathieuletyrant/opal-c1-revive · Revision 94b86dc
NOTES.md GitHub · mathieuletyrant/opal-c1-revive · Revision 94b86dc