Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-11
bayerlink: raw camera data through an HDMI link
An open protocol for carrying raw Bayer sensor data over HDMI or DVI, with reference codecs, test vectors, Raspberry Pi tooling, and Verilog receivers.
Why it surfacedbayerlink repurposes a display link’s active area as a byte container, placing one camera line in each display line and describing the stream with a 48-byte header. It comes with practical tools for Pi sources, FPGA receivers, capture sticks, recording, replay, and bit-exact conformance testing—a remarkably specific piece of hardware plumbing.
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Lunch Through the Bee Veil
August 11’s newborn domains include a bee veil with a lockable lunch flap, a book designed to unfold over ten years, a Colombian missing-person and aid board, and a brick studio made by a dad and his 10-year-old co-founder.
This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-11 Domain Arrivals issue.