Excited to announce that Roc Camera is open for batch 2 orders! Current lead times are about 2-3 weeks depending on where you are We've got a new website - let us know what you think :) 🪨📸 (https://roc.camera/)

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Still ironing out a bunch of bugs, we're working on it...

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The main thesis for Faust is: make machines that make us more human. The more expanded version is, help make machines that make machines that make us more human. The first set of machines is "machines that make us more human" - in this context Roc Camera is the first product. I wanted to build something that I thought would make us more human. A way to capture moments that are verifiably real in the age of AI. Which to be is less about whether it really is real or not (though that matters) and more about whether it feels real. The experience of using a roc camera is what is ultimately the most important in the long run - or i'd like to believe is the case if we are making machines that make us more human. We want to continue to make more machines (like Roc Camera) that can do this/ The second set of machines, which I think Roc Explorer, is increasingly going to fall under is "machines that make machines" with the aim that they will make us more human. Part of that is about creating infrastructure like manufacturing (we put a lot of time into how to build the machine that produces the roc camera, i'd say half our effort in v1 of Roc Camera went into how to make the machine that makes the machines.) So in this sense, part of our bet with Roc Explorer is - can it be a place where the value of the photos themselves (that they can be proved they were taken with roc camera) provides a place where agents / robots / machines / vehicles can start querying and using these photos (it's really just sensor data) as anchor points about what is the case. Agents themselves don't care about epistemic truth of a certain photo being taken as you say, but the the people prompting the agents are ultimately humans, still. And humans that want these agents ultimately to do something (I presume) would still want them rooted in reality, not some made up thing. In this context, in the longer run, I think of it in the agent context as: how do we create photos or sets of data that are injectable into contexts? If you can reference real-world data points that you know and can trust are real, it essentially improves queries for agents significantly better. In the longer run, that's part of the thing: if you can understand your context significantly better with data that essentially you can trust, it's just easier to have better results. It's sort of like the difference between having a map that references reality at a higher fidelity versus asking people around about how to get around at some location. You just don't necessarily know if they're local or not. So in this sense, while the main goal continues to be to make machines that make us more human, I also want to increasingly experiment and open up the second part of our aim, which feeds into the first goal anyway. That is to make machines that make machines more human. In this context, making Roc Explorer is a way to help get better context for the machines that make machines about what's going on. Yes, a lot of the 'how' is still further out in practice, but this is more of the motivation behind the why and the thinking behind why we built Roc Explorer

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One way to understand Roc Explorer is that it is a perception oracle for agentic web, robots and other physical vehicles in the real world - that need to access epistemic ground truth programatically

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Announcing Roc Explorer 🌐 (https://explorer.roc.camera/) - It's the place the moments you capture on Roc Camera go - Now in Roc Camera v0.4.4, you can upload your moments to Roc Explorer (which is live) - Browse Explorer for other moments that have been captured that are verifiable - Verified that they have been taken by Roc Camera

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also we started working on a new device earlier this year just sold our first pre-order

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some new software updates coming soon...

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Roc Camera and the system software underneath is: 1) Mostly Rust (system sw) 2) Dart (UI) 3) Some C++ 4) Shell

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Roc Camera update v0.4.3 is out: - New Battery Indicator: finally rewrote the whole BMS (Battery Management System) from scratch - Watermarks: timestamp your photos with proof visually as well - Moments Gallery page is smoother, and has dates - Further improvement to the proof system, OTA flow, WiFi, - Performance updates, bug fixes etc.

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Shipping out more of our batch 2 orders

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Roc Camera update v0.4.2 is live - Thanks to @mishaderidder.eth a bug that we found in v0.4.1 we patched it - Can show old photos we've previously taken (the old proving format) - Detects legacy directory layouts and proof validity - Some nice UI elements to show you which moments are still using the old proving schema. You can re-prove it as well by clicking the icon and it will turn green

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Roc Camera update v0.4.1 - Order of magnitude improvement on ZK Proofs used to take 20+ secs, now a few seconds - 'Photos' are now called 'Moments' - i.e. take verifiably real moments - If you press the green verified badge in the moments gallery you can see the proof output - We've got some under the hood updates on the OS side, should be faster and snappier overall to use - (Uploads are coming soon...) - and much much more if you have any issues updating the software, DM me (thanks)

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Roc Camera #69 is still sitting around and I don’t know what to do with it maybe we should auction it at some point

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excited for whats next with faust / roc camera in 2026

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Bucket list achievements: ✔️arrive home late to kid baked cookies and refrigerated milk ✔️capture incorruptible cryptographic family memories I like my kids to cozy up next to the ideas of the future. They don’t have to be all-in, just brush shoulders against curiosity & happenstance. roc.camera feels like the digital Polaroid for ai era. My kids and I bond over taking “grainy” images and capture an older aesthetic.

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