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The Lightbox project is an experimental photography box made to help examine new subjects for computer vision.
It's essentially a photography box with automated UV, IR, and RGBW lighting coupled with 1 or more cameras with 1 or more filters. I've built a prototype system, and am in the process of bringing it up the first time. I'll be documenting it as I solidify it.

Right now, for hardware it's using:

• Ai-Thinker ESP32-CAM board (You can find these cheap on Amazon and similar sites)
• Adafruit AW9523 GPIO Expander
• Adafruit 4-Channel I2C-safe Bi-directional Logic Level Converter
• Custom test box
• Relay boards
• IR LED strips
• Adafruit UV Neopixels
• Adafruit RGBW Neopixels
• Clicky buttons
• Breadboard
• Lots of wires.
• USB hub
• 12V/USB battery
• Power supply
• 12V pigtails ... and assorted hardware.

I also have some various filters and optics I'm planning to incorporate as I progress.

This will probably become a custom PCB that you drop modules into, although what stays as modules and what is included in the board design is TBD.

Embedded-wise, I've built firmware for an ESP32-CAM using Espressif's ESP-IDF framework. The firmware supports a set of commands via USB-Serial or HTTP and can stream video in a rudimentary manner. It also provides a basic website for testing / configuration.

This is still actively under development, but the camera can now be opened with Zebral's CameraHttp class.