Collaborate Disseminate
Issac Asimov wrote Caves of Steel in 1953. In it, he mentions something called trimensional personification. In an age before WebEx and Zoom, imagining that people would have remote meetings replete …read more Continue reading Project Starline Realizes Asimov’s 3D Vision
What happens when you mix over 23,000 coffee stirrers and a Raspberry Pi camera together? Probably nothing except for a mess, unless you very specifically pack the plastic straws and …read more Continue reading Coffee Stirrers Act as Lens for This Digital Straw Camera
When you make a living building stuff and documenting the process camera setups take up a lot of time, breaking expensive equipment is an occupational hazard. [Ivan Miranda] knows this …read more Continue reading 3D Printed Camera Crane For The Workshop
A few years ago [Xabier Zubizarreta] got it into his head that he wanted to put a modern digital image sensor into a classic Super 8 camera, but he didn’t …read more Continue reading Soviet Super 8 Camera Hides Raspberry Pi Zero
Anamorphic lenses are a great way to shoot in widescreen, but they’re prohibitively expensive on digital formats. Enthusiasts have experimented with using anamorphic adapter lenses from old projectors, but focusing …read more Continue reading An Anamorphic Lens Adapter For Very Pretty Video
There’s nothing worse than being in the middle of an important shot, only to have the camera’s batteries die on you. The losses can be very real, so it’s best …read more Continue reading A Hot-Swappable Battery Grip Keeps The Camera Rolling
Photography doesn’t have to be expensive, something that’s especially true in the realm of film photography, where the imperfections of the medium can be half the appeal. There are many …read more Continue reading Large Format Lego Camera is a Bit Near-Sighted
Judging by the over-representation of the term “AI” in our news feeds these days, we’re clearly in the exponential phase of the artificial intelligence hype cycle, and very nearly at …read more Continue reading An AI-Free Way to Catch Wildlife on Camera
The February 1975 issue of Popular Electronics had what was — at the time — an amazing project. The Cyclops, a digital camera with a 32 by 32 pixel resolution …read more Continue reading Image Sensors Demystified by [IMSAI Guy]
The Onion Tau LiDAR Camera is a small, time-of-flight (ToF) based depth-sensing camera that looks and works a little like a USB webcam, but with a really big difference: frames …read more Continue reading New Part Day: Onion Tau LiDAR Camera