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A camera that snaps a GIF and ejects a cartridge that displays it
- kazinator 9y agoWhy specifically the GIF format internally? I haven't seen a GIF come out of a digital camera in ... ever, actually.
- kens 9y agoIn the "new lingo", GIF means a short animated image loop. See, for example, /r/gifs or Twitter's "Add a GIF" feature. A "GIF" can be in .mp4 format, for instance, so there's little connection (other than historical) with the actual GIF image protocol.
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- nilved 9y agoLet's be part of the solution instead of the problem.
- farnsworth 9y agoIt's only a problem if you're a tech pedant.
- nilved 9y agoI'm not a pedant. To me, the word "pedantry" describes the colour of the sky. Get used to it.
- ringaroundthetx 9y agoTo me it describes excessive concern with minor details and rules. but thats none of my business tho
- ryandrake 9y agoI think the problem is "what words actually mean" has become a minor detail to some people. My high school English teacher would not have accepted "language evolves" as an excuse for things like confusing "then" and "than" and not knowing the meaning of the word "literally".
- DonHopkins 9y agoAnd then there's the "what file extensions actually mean" problem.
- burkaman 9y agoYour high school English teacher was wrong. Words mean whatever people think they mean, much like how money is worth whatever people think it's worth. Of course as an individual you can't unilaterally redefine a word, just as you can't declare that a $100 bill is worth as much as a car.
- mixmastamyk 9y agoUntil it's time to get a normal job.
- burkaman 9y agoAt most jobs it's more important to communicate effectively than it is to know the historical definitions of words. Of course, words don't have universal meanings. Lawyers and scientists use the word "theory" differently, for example. In any given environment, you should use words the way the people you need to communicate with expect them to be used.
- chickenfries 9y agoUsing literally to mean figuratively is just fine. They're being ironic, or hyperbolic. Then and than mean different things. To a lay person, a gif is a short, looping, soundless video. I'm not sure what is being lost by not distinguishing between this and a short mp4 file with no sound on loop.
- eckza 9y agoCareful not to cut yourself on that edge.
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- freehunter 9y agoWhat would you call a short looping video without sound? GIF works because it's what it evolved from, is still a widely used format, everyone knows the name, and we don't really have a better name for it.
- sqeaky 9y agoBut we could have literal wars over the pronunciation. I just don't want to leave a legacy of pain and violence for the children of the hard G.
- Allower 9y agoThats not a very good excuse to continue abusing a term..
- abhi3188 9y agoyup I too am using the term just to denote a short animated image loop. It's much more efficient to store and send over an mp4 instead which is what I do
- mixmastamyk 9y agoWhy not call it an MP4 then? Due to MP3 it's recognized as much or more than gif.
- abhi3188 9y agodoesn't have the same ring to it.. i made a camera that snaps an MP4 and print it.. GIF is more relatable and is becoming the generic lingo to denote this kind of medium
- kazinator 9y agoIt's a video; a vid. A short video is a clip. Wait; can't call it that because it loops by default. Gif it is, then.
- mixmastamyk 9y agoVid is fine, looping is not the marquee feature. Apple calls them live photos, I like it.
- twic 9y agoMaybe we should distinguish these two meanings (1980's image file format and any short looping video) by pronouncing them differently. I suggest we use the correct pronunciation for the former, and the infamous wrong pronunciation for the latter.
- skarap 9y agoIt's... sad. A few months ago a friend was asking whether I know a service to convert a gif to a video. Which was also sad.
- ars 9y agoIt's probably actually mjpeg - at least that's what I would use.
- kazinator 9y agoShoot videos like it's 1999?
- DonHopkins 9y agoThe Complete Adventures of Indiana Jones, chapter 12: The Curse of the Compression Artifact.
- aub3bhat 9y agoGIF are a great example of a medium that succeeded specifically DUE to it's shortcoming/constraints. In fact most "gifs" on highly visited sites are mp4 videos (which can have audio and longer length). But they pretend to be gif in order to convey original set of affordances of gif format.
- abhi3188 9y agothat's exactly what I'm doing.. it records an mp4 but I'm using the term GIF to denote a short looping audioless animation
- nkrisc 9y agoJust a guess: if you wanted to extract one of the images you took with this camera, it's already in the GIF format which people are familiar with.
- hk__2 9y agoGIFs are usually compressed so each frame isn’t the full image.
- ctdonath 9y ago"print" = transfers image data to a removable screen "GIF" = short video
- leeoniya 9y agofacepalm
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- jahabrewer 9y ago"dial" = tap light that looks like buttons on a piece of glass Language evolves.
- StavrosK 9y agoAnd until it does, we need people like the GP to translate.
- aub3bhat 9y ago"printing" to a "removable screen" might actually be more eco-friendly than printing a "per-frame polaroid flip-book" which what I assumed initially.
- thiscatis2 9y agoYou must be fun at parties. But then again...
- jotux 9y agoThe word print has meant many things throughout history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_printing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_printing The most broad definition: To make an impression or set a mark upon a surface. You could easily call this printing.
- abhi3188 9y agothanks, I'm gonna use this line cuz I've been hearing this a lot all day haha
- ctdonath 9y agoHow about actually printing, then laminating on a lenticular surface providing a "GIF-sized" short moving-image effect? [edited per comments]
- mortenjorck 9y agoI presume you mean "lenticular" - which would be a very cool (and possibly mass-producible) alternative. I wonder how you might go about performing the lamination inside the camera... Perhaps you could feed it a pre-laminated sheet that is thin enough that it can be printed on the reverse side?
- jgh 9y agoThe lenticular surface doesn't have to be very thick at all and if you can print directly onto the plastic I think what you describe would be pretty straightforward to make!
- Cerium 9y agoCould print on the lens sheet then put a white sticker on the back. The sticker would protect the print as well as provided white background.
- cr0sh 9y agoI would imagine that such a device would be difficult to build so that it works correctly the majority of times it is used. Even if the "reverse printing" idea could be done (I like the idea, btw), it would have to be extremely exact to line up the "pixels" of the images with the individual lenses. Perhaps a print-head with some kind of camera on it to see where it is printing as the head passes over the lens could be done? Recall that these kinds of "motion picture cards" have been around for decades; at least 40 or 50 years, maybe longer. If such a camera (or even a home-based process) could have been built for consumer use, it probably would have been sold. The fact that it wasn't, and the fact that even during all these years there haven't been many manufacturers of such images, should give you an idea of how difficult registration of the image stripes with the lens can be. A purely mechanical process (printing the image onto some kind of paper, then laminating the lens over the top) probably can't be easily (or cheaply) done - otherwise it likely would have been. That's just my take on things, of course; maybe I'm completely wrong, or there's some method or such I am missing that could make the system easier to build today? I do think the idea of "reverse printing" might be a step toward it. I can't think of how you'd build such a thing to be hand-held, but I can imagine a desktop-sized machine being potentially possible (again, using some kind of close-imaging camera or some other method to register the printing of the images with the individual lenses on the plastic).
- Multicomp 9y agoReminds me a bit of the old dreamcast memory card
- strictnein 9y agoYes, this doesn't exactly "print" a GIF, but it's still a cool use of hardware and tech, with a nice writeup of how it was all accomplished.
- abhi3188 9y agoglad you liked it
- nathancahill 9y agoPretty neat. Crazy it uses an adhoc wifi network to communicate between the camera and the cartridge. Seems overkill for a battery powered device when they are already plugged in to each other physically.
- dogma1138 9y agoOverkill but much easier from a technical point of view considering what was used to make the cartridge.
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- wongarsu 9y agoMy first thought would have been to connect the two PIs with a serial interface. Sure, that's another two pins to connect between camera and cartridge, but on the surface it still sounds easier than setting up a reliable ad-hock wifi. The fact that it would use magnitudes less energy is a bonus. Of course it might be that OP evaluated that and decided against it for good reasons.
- dogma1138 9y agoBut then you need to worry about other things and it's also likely much slower. Ethernet just works it's an established protocol and there aren't that many easy ways to transfer files other than it today that work out of the box and with any combination of hardware and software.
- nathancahill 9y ago> you need to worry about other things Serial I/O is common Hello World example for Raspberry Pi. I think you have to worry about less things than adhoc wifi networks. > likely much slower It's slower, but not much slower. The baud rate can be set up to 4,000,000, where a megabyte would transfer in 2 seconds. These "gifs" don't seem to be more than 10 seconds long, so they should be less than 1 MB, judging from random Giphy mp4s.
- switchstance 9y agoI was expecting a GIF flip book.
- kuldeepkap 9y agovery neat! I was expecting a hologram print where you move side ways to see image animate. Something like this - https://images.britcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Ubersnap-2.gif https://images.britcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Ubersn...
- eljimmy 9y agoI was fully expecting that object coming out of the camera to be something like a stack of post-it notes with images printed on them. Very misleading title.
- Romanulus 9y agoWe need to stop outsourcing. /s~
- oulipo 9y agoReally cool! As you are using a Raspberry Pi 3 you can add a 100% on-device Voice AI to it using https://snips.ai https://snips.ai we would be interested to see how you can use this to add some cool interactions!
- hk__2 9y agoPlease disclose your affiliation; you to linked to snips.ai in each one of your comments over the past month.
- majewsky 9y agoIn https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14856598 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14856598 his/her affiliation is stated as co-founder. This behavior alone has convinced me to never consider their products. Which is sad, I could see myself using the product for my own projects, but I don't want to do business with spammers.
- oulipo 9y agoHey majewsky, of course I'm a co-founder and I'm looking for people interested in building on raspi! I'm sorry to see you think this is spam, but I mostly comment on the posts that we have sent on HN, or on posts about Raspberry Pi to let people know about the platform I think I mostly do about one comment per week, so I don't feel like spamming exactly :) I take your point and I will state my affiliation clearly next time, thanks!
- oulipo 9y agoSure, I'm one of the co-founder, I'm looking for people interested in building cool objects with Raspi! I'm not sure that one comment per week when I see a cool object should be considered as spam :)
- hk__2 9y agoCommenting on relevant posts to promote your product is ok if you disclose your affiliation. As long as you do it, it’s fine IMHO.
- twiss 9y agoIf I add up the parts of the cartridge, I come to around $88 (including a $35 touch screen). The demo makes me wanna take a picture like that and give the cartridge away. Maybe if it can get under $10 that would be feasible? And before that, at $20 or $30 they could sell them at theme parks where they take your picture in a roller coaster.
- wongarsu 9y agoThe price of his battery and power converter are pretty insane, and a Raspberry Pi is convenient but overkill. Given a more price-conscious part choice and at least some volume (since what's the point in building only one cartridge), you should be able to get that to $5 plus display fairly easily. Suitable displays can be found for $10 from Amazon (shipped from China). So you can probably home-build it for $15. If you're a startup in Shenzhen it might be feasible to sell them assembled for $10 and make a nice profit if you can sell a million of them.
- abhi3188 9y agoI agree, this is something I built entirely with off the shelf parts so the cost is bound to balloon.. The cost can be brought down significantly like you said
- wongarsu 9y agoI think most of the cost is just the tradeoff between getting stuff tomorrow, or one month later from china at a fraction at the cost. If money isn't an issue, paying more to get stuff faster is certainly more productive.
- exabrial 9y agoHow creative! Nice work
- abhi3188 9y ago:) glad you enjoyed it
- fairpx 9y agoVery cool. If you can make that cartridge dirt cheap, you will have invented an exciting new technology. Build a V2 with cheaper tech, change your wording a bit as to what the device does, keep the polaroid link a little bit, but make it your own and then I think you'll have something that could kick ass on Kickstarter.
- QAPereo 9y agoMake the carts NFC and turn Share on when you remove it. You could Tap to swap whatever gif is currently displayed on someone else's cart. That's probably easier than dirt cheap, disposable displays.
- disposabledisp 9y agoDo disposable displays exist? The ones i have, at least, aren't biodegradable at all, and are in fact barely recyclable at all. Seems like you're proposing an environmental disaster.
- F_r_k 9y agoThe idea is great, but indeed it would induce a lot of preventable waste
- cr0sh 9y agoThe closest kind of such a display I can think of would be a cholesteric liquid crystal display: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cholesteric_liquid_crystal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cholesteric_liquid_crystal ...and even that may not be. I only say that it might, because I have a credit-card sized (it looks identical to a credit card - same size, same thickness) device from my bank, that was given to me as a customer for generating a 2-factor authentication number. The number is displayed as a set of 6 7-segment digits on such a display. I've had it for over 15 years, and it is still running off its original battery. That said, I've never seen such a display which was larger than what is on my card, nor one that had color (the one on my card is a "greyish-green" color). Plus the displays are very slow to update (but, like e-ink displays, they don't need power to retain the image - at least in the short term; over time, the numbers on mine "degrade"). But supposedly, when the card's battery is "used up", and the card no longer works, you're supposed to cut it up along certain "lines" printed on the back of the card, and throw it in the trash. I doubt that it is biodegradable, but it might be recyclable.
- dumbfounder 9y agoLooks more like regurgitation.
- metalliqaz 9y agoyou said "prints" but I saw "programs"
- krelian 9y agoHe didn't say anything, you read it.
- cdiamand 9y agoThis is so cool! The assembly GIFs really show how much work went into this. Thanks for sharing.
- abhi3188 9y agothere was so much more than that really but it's the best I could capture. Was also getting tired of documenting by that time haha
- ChuckMcM 9y agoHah, not exactly what most people think when you use the word 'print' but then again ... People have asked what is the impact of 'free' CPUs. Something Dave Rosenthal realized way back in the 90's was that the electronics for driving a display could be printed on the margins of the display and eliminate the need for a separate controller board. Having watched the evolution of displays and seeing Mary Lou Jepsen's work on the PixelQi and other screens it became fairly clear that it still made sense to use silicon for the controller and glass for the elements, but once you get to OLED technology (no backlight) and printing on plastic substrates then you reach the point where you can imagine something like this project but the size, weight, and thickness of a Polaroid picture rather something the size of a cigarette box. At its simplest, imagine an OLED display driven by reading out an EPROM printed on the borders. Your camera encodes the image in the EPROM and then whenever you apply power to the "picture' it shows the one image. Certainly something there to explore, a number of engineering challenges between there and a product though.
- Palomides 9y agoa sheet for a polaroid costs maybe $2 now, some of them even include a chemical battery to power the camera. it seems very plausible to me that a printed display/controller could hit parity with that.
- tyingq 9y agoNot $2, but less than I expected it would be: https://m.aliexpress.com/s/item/32824239190.html?spm=a2g0n.search-cache.0.0.7f25570fDC897q#autostay https://m.aliexpress.com/s/item/32824239190.html?spm=a2g0n.s...
- ctdonath 9y agoI've long imagined something like that: a card-sized (including thickness) full-color display devoted to displaying, say, an entire movie. Given ultra-thin displays like OLED, dirt cheap storage, and "free" dedicated processing, you could hand out videos like sales brochures or cheap paperbacks. Amazing how technology has advanced.
- stillsut 9y agoLenticular Images allow you to create 2D photos that move: https://media.giphy.com/media/ZPJO1M6RViPT2/giphy.gif https://media.giphy.com/media/ZPJO1M6RViPT2/giphy.gif
- jdironman 9y agoI wonder what the limit of...well for lack of better word 'frames' that would be on such an item?
- stillsut 9y agoThere's a trade-off: MoreFrames vs. EasierToUse. Imagine placing one of these images on machine for say telescope positioning and performing a controlled rotation with a perfectly immobile observer. You could probably get 100+ frames. Now imagine pulling it out of your wallet and playing with it the car. A dozen frames at most?
- hughes 9y agoI'd be surprised to get more than 3 or 4 frames. But 4 thoughtfully selected frames can still convey some pretty cool action!
- tdeck 9y agoGifpop will print ones for you with up to 10 frames: https://gifpop.io/ https://gifpop.io/ (disclaimer: I've never used them and have no affiliation)
- softbuilder 9y agoThat project looks like a lot of FUN, which I think some folks have missed was the point.
- abhi3188 9y agoya I did try to state that in the top of the imgur album as well
- cm2012 9y agoJust like Harry Potter. I would buy one of these if it was available with new cartridges.
- cedricium 9y agoThis reminded me of OTTO, made by Next Thing Co. (same people behind CHIP and PocketCHIP).
- iRobbery 9y agobut! Does one still have to shake it and wait to see the image 'appear'?
- technomalogical 9y agoLooking at the animated gifs in the OP, it does appear to "fade in" similar to a Polaroid print.
- abhi3188 9y agoyes, the camera sends two versions.. one a programmatically slowed down version which fades in from black and a second regular version. The faded one plays once and immediately gets replaced by the second version which then continues playing on a loop.. I decided to cut the length of the fade in short for documentation purposes mostly
- jscissr 9y agoYes, there is a fade in effect (but no shaking). It is mentioned in the post, you have to click 'Load 13 more images' at the bottom to see the whole post.
- abhi3188 9y agopolaroid actually recommended against shaking so I decided to do away with that.. was thinking of adding an accelerometer before that to trigger the reveal
- lisper 9y agoWow, this is awesome! It's like a magic painting from Harry Potter's world, except real. Muggles rule! :-)
- abhi3188 9y agoglad you liked it!
- michrassena 9y agoI enjoyed seeing the design and build process. There's a long way to go to make a product out of this. I also wonder whether there are legal downsides to using the look and feel of the Polaroid "rainbow" nextstep (which was famously the source of the now-retired Instagram logo). It would be very neat to have a credit card sized screen with a micro-controller and a bit flash doing the work rather than a full-sized computer.
- abhi3188 9y agoyup I did think of doing that but wanted to do this version with off the shelf components that others could replicate easily
- michrassena 9y agoThat makes a lot of sense. It's a great project and I hope you can continue to make refinements to it.
- peterjlee 9y agoI think wizards call this a normal camera.
- logfromblammo 9y agoThe camera is not the interesting part. The cartridge is the cool thing, and the camera was designed and built solely as the means to show it off from a very restricted frame of reference. In order to maximize the effect, the cartridge should be programmed to "develop" the initial image with a visual effect from a black screen, and then hold there for a few seconds. And then, when the person you're showing off to starts to think "Ah, this is just a digital version of a Polaroid photo--that's not so impressive," that is when you start looping the animation. You have to give the person a chance to make an assumption before you break it.
- abhi3188 9y agoa lot of people make that assumption long before the cartridge comes out but adding in that second surprise layer might be cool too
- otto_ortega 9y agoNice little project, I can only imagine the amount of hours it took to complete, but it is definitely a nice demo of the creator skills. Congrats.
- abhi3188 9y agothanks, glad you liked it.. I definitely wasn't doing it with the purpose of showcasing my skills, but more with the purpose of cementing them.. all of this is just a real good bonus :)
- tau255 9y agoGreat trick with laser cutter and black paint on the pcb. I wonder how end resolution compares to milled pcb. Also this is one of problems I have with Imgur. How to archive such detailed imgur post? I have tried ripme [1](great for grabbing image sets without addnotations), printscreen browser extensions (mixed results - most do not cope with floating menus and have problems with dynamic image loading), page saving or printing via browser (similar problems with dynamic loading). Does anyone have seen something that could archive imgur post with all content? 1. https://github.com/4pr0n/ripme https://github.com/4pr0n/ripme
- ChuckMcM 9y agounrelated but evernote's webclipper does a good job and can capture the page. You can also 'print to PDF' from your browser.
- tau255 9y agoI will look up webclipper. Printing as I stated (assumed printing to pdf not paper) does not always work as imgur page is dynamic and does not retain all content loaded on screen (at least on Chromium and Vivaldi).
- LeifCarrotson 9y ago> Great trick with laser cutter and black paint on the pcb. I wonder how end resolution compares to milled pcb. Eh, I thought this was a point where they made the wrong call. You can get a much better result for less money and less personal time invested - just wait a week or two - by sending your Gerbers off to be manufactured. PCB manufacture is dirt cheap and has extreme quality compared to home-etching your boards.
- tau255 9y agoIn home shop it all comes to what is easiest. Most boards that I do are single runs. If laser cutter can do single run on site without hassle of getting toner transfer or uv run that's great. I did not see that this is different from single run operation (considering how it is wired) so no point to wait for pcbs. That can wait for tens or more pcbs. Also it boils down to personal need. This is hand crafted and tailored piece. With this setup you can easily modify and correct everything to work.
- orvado 9y agoThat's some next-level geekery right there. Outstanding!
- abhi3188 9y ago:D thanks
- tarikozket 9y agoSo impressive, great work.
- abhi3188 9y agothanks!
- js2 9y ago> I replaced the functionality of the black knob. To be honest I don't even know what its purpose was. Exposure compensation dial.
- abhi3188 9y agoah thanks for letting me know! I was just working off images of the camera I found online, I guess I could have actually used it to control exposure on the piCam
- js2 9y agoI'm old enough to have used the SX-70 and OneStep as a kid. Complete with the flash bulb bar. It helps that my dad owned a darkroom/camera store (and eventually one-hour lab). :-)
- abhi3188 9y agoHi guys, I am the creator of this camera! happy to answer any questions.. didn't know it was doing so well here on HN :)
- atroll 9y agoAwesome gadget man! So how does it work? Can you give us a detailed answer.
- DonHopkins 9y agoWill you develop a noir cartridge for making beautiful black and white error diffusion dithered animated gifs? https://media.giphy.com/media/l0K7o6Tn4JsJtvDMc/giphy.gif https://media.giphy.com/media/l0K7o6Tn4JsJtvDMc/giphy.gif https://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=40832.msg1124342#msg1124342 https://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=40832.msg112434...
- abhi3188 9y agocould easily be programmed in. I was already thinking of experimenting with filters.. printing a black case to go with it shouldnt be a problem
- foobarge 9y agoThe print could have buttons to trigger different filters.
- abhi3188 9y agoyes I was thinking of experimenting with filters. I decided not to add more buttons since it is a touchscreen and it made more sense to program in an interface when needed rather than set it in stone through hardware
- nielsbot 9y agoWhat about printing little flip books? :) Cool project in any case.
- cr0sh 9y agoThis is one of those projects that at first, is easy to dismiss as "silly" or "useless". On the surface, sure. But looking at the imgur album and reading the comments (and I would imagine going to the website, etc - which I haven't done), it becomes clear (and the author even says so on the album) that this project ultimately served a larger purpose: From start to finish, this project has helped the person develop a complete (or nearly so) set of manufacturing skills. An idea was taken from concept, on through a multitude of other steps (design, prototyping, software development, hardware development, etc), to producing a final working "product". Now - it seems from the comments in the album that this isn't the authors first go at such a project, but it may have been one of the most complex or largest they have done. Regardless of that, it has helped them to hone and develop a complete set of skills very few people have. Heck - I would encourage the author to try turning this project, or something similar, into a MOOC in some manner; I don't know if this is possible, or if it has been done before, but I bet there's a growing audience of people who'd love an all-in-one course to study to gain such skills. Part of the problem of implementing such a thing as a MOOC is whether a person has access to the needed tools and equipment; maybe that could be part of any pre-req's? Or, maybe people would pay for such a course, and parts or tools could be provided (kinda like those "boxed recipe meals" you can get)? Ultimately, I liked seeing this project; even though to me it seemed "frivolous", it really is a physical form of "random play coding exercises" software engineers do from time to time, in order to learn a new language or framework, or just to try out ideas or whatnot. Such a project thus becomes a education and learning opportunity of a very intense sort. If this individual hasn't gotten any job offers or such, I would seriously question "why not?" - they have shown a level of competence and follow through rarely seen in a single individual, and they should be considered a valuable asset to a company (that, or this person needs to create a startup or something).
- kw71 9y agoThis is pretty cool! I noticed the author decided to use metric thread machine hardware. He's probably an American because he specified McMaster-Carr as a source. #4 and #6 machine screws are a lot less costly here and available everywhere. (Your hard drive screws are 6-32, same as the electrical wall boxes; floppy 4-40) I personally hate unified threads, on the basis that the rest of the world uses iso threads. But this is one of those times that being a pedant about it would increase the cost.
- abhi3188 9y agoI'm just in America but not American which is why I refuse to accept inches and weird numbering for screws haha.. it's worth the few extra bucks for me, you're right though, you could modify the design and use cheaper screws
- grimmdude 9y agoSo does it have to boot up before you can use it?
- abhi3188 9y agoyes, it does boot up. But I boot to the console, no GUI so its relatively quick and all the scripts get initiated on startup
- daveheq 9y agoIs this called a Giferoid?
- danielharrison 9y agoYou make it sound so sexy
- abhi3188 9y agohaha I did consider that name at one point of time, decided against it
- atroll 9y agoyou should patent it asap
- minademian 9y agoan awesome (in the literal sense) piece of work - hardware, software, engineering, design, communication, promotion
- abhi3188 9y agothanks, glad you enjoyed it
- mintskoal 9y agoThis is really, really cool.
- abhi3188 9y agothank you :)
- snambi 9y agoJust incredible... involves h/w, s/w, devices.. awesome!!
- abhi3188 9y agothanks, glad you liked it.. I have a love-hate with these kinds of projects
- racl101 9y agoIf only there was a device that could capture several images in succession to create a moving image. Boy that would be something.
- jacobush 9y agoKodak will release such a device later this year. But it might be vapor ware.
- dabdeal 9y agowow!
- abhi3188 9y ago:D
- pramodzion 9y agohttps://i1.wp.com/images.wikia.com/harrypotter/images/a/a0/Prisoner_of_Azkaban_-_Sirius_Black.gif https://i1.wp.com/images.wikia.com/harrypotter/images/a/a0/P...
- dmritard96 9y agoI really loved the mechanical design. Designing for 3d printing (especially fdm) can be tricky if you don't want to spend lots of time cleaning up support material. Very cool.
- abhi3188 9y agoyup you definitely have to keep that in mind while designing. luckily the projet 7000 SLA printer, prints with supports that are actually a pleasure to remove.. You have to be more careful about preventing resin accumulation in any part as it could cause deformations
- chris__butters 9y agoThis has to be one of the best self started little projects I've seen that has the biggest throw back to my childhood growing up when polaroid cameras were popular.
- MindTwister 9y agoHis Hololens Super Mario is awesome as well https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QN95nNDtxjo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QN95nNDtxjo
- CharlesDodgson 9y agowell , this project certainly makes me feel inadequate in my achievements :( I wish I had the wherewithal to have applied myself in college and learned more than I just needed to learn!
- artur_makly 9y agoVery proud to have my fellow ITP'r Shek rock'in the top of these charts. For those on the cross-roads of life.. Consider NYU's ITP program to be your next spring-board into the future: https://tisch.nyu.edu/itp https://tisch.nyu.edu/itp you won't regret it.
- SKYRHO_ 9y agoQuirky, but thumbs up!
- nickphx 9y agoAwesome work, thanks for sharing such great detail and technical resources needed to replicate.
- ge96 9y agoMan, turn that into transparent electronics interlaced with photovoltaic cells. A lady was looking at me menacingly in a store today as I used the cardboard bags.