I'm with you on it being fascinating, but this also has the same drawback as the stock camera in my Qidi which is that the frame rate is ass. And mine actually manages as many as 6 or sometimes even 8 frames per second!
I imagine this is in no small part due to the video compression happening in the dinky SoC on the printer's mainboard, and obviously it prioritizes timing the print head moves over everything else. When my printer is idle and preferably showing a largely black frame (i.e. the internal lighting is turned off) the framerate rockets into the 30's. I've toyed with the idea of splitting the camera out onto a separate board since it's only USB internally and can be unplugged and the wire rerouted, but thus far I haven't cared enough to overcome my laziness in setting it up.
To be fair I also have a GoPro that's usually not doing anything productive. If I really wanted to go whole hog I could adhere one of its little mounts in there somewhere and power it off one of the USB headers. I'm sure there's enough clearance inside the case for it, and then we could print at 4K60.
I'm much more interested in whatever mechanical contrivance you're printing parts for, there.
