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If you are manufacturing something, you have to test it. It wouldn’t do, for example, for your car to say it was going 60 MPH when it was really going …read more Continue reading Measuring a Millisecond Mechanically
If you want to see inside an integrated circuit (IC), you generally have to take the die out of the package, which can be technically challenging and often destroys the …read more Continue reading [Bunnie] Peeks Inside ICs with IR
[A. Cemal Ekin] over on PetaPixel reviewed the Apexel 200X LED Microscope Lens. The relatively inexpensive accessory promises to transform your cell phone camera into a microscope. Of course, lenses …read more Continue reading Your Phone is a 200X Microscope — Sort Of
PeriscopeFilm owners [Doug] and [Nick] just released a mini-documentary about the rescue of a large collection of old 35 and 16 mm celluloid films from the landfill. The video shows …read more Continue reading Collection of Old Films Rescued for Preservation
It’s the most basic of functions for a camera, that when you point it at a scene, it produces a photograph of what it sees. [Jasper van Loenen] has created …read more Continue reading This Camera Produces a Picture, Using the Scene Before It
Real-time object detection, which uses neural networks and deep learning to rapidly identify and tag objects of interest in a video feed, is a handy feature with great hacker potential. …read more Continue reading How To Roll Your Own Custom Object Detection Neural Network
The original Polaroid cameras were a huge hit not just for their instant delivery, but for the convenient size of the permanent images they delivered. It’s something that digital cameras …read more Continue reading An Instant Camera Using E-Paper As Film
This month came the announcement of some new camera modules from Raspberry Pi. All eyes were on version 3 of their standard camera module, but they also sneaked out a …read more Continue reading Do You Need The Raspberry Pi Camera Module V3?
If you’ve ever played around with macro photography, you’ve likely noticed that the higher the lens magnification, the less the depth of field. One way around this issue is to …read more Continue reading Better Macro Images With Arduino Focus Stacking
Back in 2012, technology websites were abuzz with news of the Lytro: a camera that was going to revolutionize photography thanks to its innovative light field technology. An array of …read more Continue reading Unlocking Hidden Features of an Unusual Camera