Cromemco Cyclops

The digital sensor for the camera was a modified 1 kb dynamic RAM (DRAM) memory chip that offered a resolution of 32 × 32 pixels (0.001 megapixels).

[1] The Cyclops Camera was developed by Terry Walker, Harry Garland, and Roger Melen, and introduced as a hobbyist construction project in the February 1975 issue of Popular Electronics magazine.

[5] Roger Melen formed a partnership with Harry Garland to produce the Cyclops Camera, and other products for the Altair computer.

They named their new venture "Cromemco" after the Stanford University dormitory (Crothers Memorial Hall) where they both had lived as graduate students.

[7][8][9] The Cyclops Camera used an innovative image sensor that was actually a modified MOS computer memory chip.

Correspondence from Popular Electronics , dated July 25, 1974, regarding a cover story for the Cyclops camera project.
Roger Melen , Terry Walker, and Harry Garland (shown in 2017) co-authored the 1975 Cyclops article for Popular Electronics .
The 32x32 image output from the Cyclops camera displayed on an oscilloscope in XY mode
Cromemco 1024-element image sensor used in the Cyclops Camera.
The electronics for the Cyclops was contained on three small circuit boards. The two red LED's on the first board are the bias lights to provide background illumination of the sensor for low-light conditions.