Collaborate Disseminate
Scanning a film negative is as simple as holding it up against a light source and photographing the result. But should you try such a straightforward method with color negatives …read more Continue reading Scanning Film The Way It Was Meant To Be
The average Hackaday reader is likely at least familiar with acoustic levitation — a technique by which carefully arranged ultrasonic transducers can be used to suspend an object in the …read more Continue reading Acoustic Levitation Gets Insects Ready For Their Close-Up
Photo-printing kiosks are about as common as payphones these days. However, there was a time when they were everywhere. The idea was that if you didn’t have a good printer …read more Continue reading Repairing a Kodak Picture Maker Kiosk
[Project 326] has a cheap thermal camera that plugs into a smart phone. Sure they are handy, but what if you could hack one into a microscope with a resolution …read more Continue reading Make Your Cheap Thermal Camera into a Microscope
If you’re a photography enthusiast, you probably own quite a few cameras, but the chances are your “good” one will have interchangeable lenses. Once you’ve exhausted the possibilities of the …read more Continue reading Expensive Camera, Cheap 3D-Printed Lens
Nowadays, if you have a microscope, you probably have a camera of some sort attached. [Applied Science] shows how you can add an array of tiny LEDs and some compute …read more Continue reading Ptychography for High Resolution Microscopy
Holography is about capturing 3D data from a scene, and being able to reconstruct that scene — preferably in high fidelity. Holography is not a new idea, but engaging in …read more Continue reading New Camera Does Realtime Holographic Capture, No Coherent Light Required
What does one do when frustrated at the lack of affordable, open source portable trackers? If you’re [OG-star-tech], you design your own and give it modular features that rival commercial offerings …read more Continue reading DIY Open-Source Star Tracker Gets You Those Great Night Shots
What do you do with a four-megapixel monochrome digital camera from the 90s that needed a dedicated PC with a frame grabber card to do anything useful? Easy — you …read more Continue reading Custom Frame Grabber Gets Vintage Kodak Digital Camera Back in the Game
The Camp Snap is a simple fixed-focus digital camera with only an optical viewfinder and a shot counter, which has become a surprise hit among photography enthusiasts for its similarity …read more Continue reading A Twin-Lens Reflex Camera That’s Not Quite What It Seems