Later this week, I'll be at the OCEJUG, Orange County Embedded Java Users' Group, to give a presentation titled: Innovate - Tweak, Hack, and Bend Technology, showing how a small device, about the size of an iPod Shuffle, but capable of executing Java-Byte-Code, is turned into a Web server. After taking a very close look inside the workings of a digital toy camera, we will connect it to the embedded device, creating a full featured web-cam.
Along the way we may add some more hardware and learn a few things about how CMOS sensors capture image data and how a Bayer-Pattern can be used to decode the sensor data.

The free OCEJUG event takes place on October 19th at the University of California, Irvine (Engineering Tower, Room 331 / ET331), starting at 6:30 PM.