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Most readers will have some idea of how a camera works, with a lens placed in front of a piece of film or an electronic sensor, and the distance between …read more Continue reading Probably The Largest Selfie Camera In The World
We haven’t checked, but we’ll go out on a limb here and say this is the first project we’ve featured with a BOM that includes “an apartment in Paris with …read more Continue reading New Take on the Camera Obscura Brings Paris Indoors
Whether you’re protesting or just stepping out for a boba, you deserve some algorithm-free alone time. Continue reading How to Thwart Facial Recognition and Other Surveillance
A camera obscura is a very simple device. Consisting of a dark chamber, with only a pinhole to let light in, it focuses an image on its inside surface. If you want to take a permanent copy, it’s as simple as installing a photosensitive film inside and managing the exposure time. Sounds like a normal camera, right? The difference is the scale — a camera obscura is large enough that humans can stand inside and view the image. Usually, they are large stationary rooms. [Physics Girl] took the show on the road by building a camera obscura out of a …read more
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You say you didn’t have enough warning to order eclipse glasses, and now they’re too expensive to buy? Or maybe you did order some but they ended up being those retina-combusting knock-offs, and now you’ve got nothing to protect you during the partial phase of Monday’s eclipse? Don’t dump a ton of money on unobtainium glasses — just stick your head in a cardboard box.
You may end up looking like a Box Troll with the aptly named [audreyobscura]’s box on your head, but it really is a safe and effective way of watching the eclipse, or for gazing at …read more
Continue reading Catch the Eclipse with a Wearable Pinhole Camera