# 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.

- Type: Case study
- Targets: Firmware
- Category: Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-08
- Original resource: <https://github.com/mathieuletyrant/opal-c1-revive>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/mathieuletyrant/opal-c1-revive/blob/94b86dc33c8573430763d4e91914d4a9ee68d067/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/opal-c1-revive-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/opal-c1-revive-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/opal-c1-revive-case/index.md)

## 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.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/mathieuletyrant/opal-c1-revive/blob/94b86dc33c8573430763d4e91914d4a9ee68d067/README.md>
2. <https://github.com/mathieuletyrant/opal-c1-revive/blob/94b86dc33c8573430763d4e91914d4a9ee68d067/NOTES.md>

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