The device is built around ATTiny13A. It is powered by a single 3V coin battery and is quite trivial. It just might be the simplest, functional device we've ever built...

The Python script is pretty simple as well but it does need some other software like FFMPEG and SciPy. You can find the instructions on how to set up your system to work with our script on the project's GitHub page

We are considering building a voice recorder with a tone generator, but this time the tone would be emitted via a speaker. If the tone will be loud enough, it should be picked up by microphones in all the cameras mounted in the cockpit and then we may have a chance to make a fully automatic solution. It  would split the audio and video recordings and align them fully autonomously.

We'll see...