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Camera Meets Speedometer, Travel Across Country Together

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the digital-would-have-been-easier dept.

BluKnight writes "This guy hacked his camera to his speedometer, and ended up taking a picture EVERY MILE during a trip across the US. Kodak has the results (Flash in use!) of this venture. For my next hack, I'm going to interface to my digital camera to take a picture every time I blink -- I'll never miss what I'm seeing again!" The best part is the fact that he stopped every 36 miles to swap film rolls. Sad thing is, I understand this. (I still love film) The interactive map is -really- well done, but requires flash...

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  1. Reminds me of Confluence.org by Viking+Coder · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Check out Confluence, which is another cool project involving digital images and geographic locations. Their goal is to take a photo at every confluence point - an intersection of integer longitude and latitude points. Very fun, very cool.

    This is a cool map, showing where they have photos, and is fully navigable.

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  2. Re:Damn... by Mr.Intel · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'm glad they didn't edit those out like so many movies have. It's a shame to attempt to erase from media what should be an icon of human endeavor.

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  3. Where's the speedometer? by harlows_monkeys · · Score: 5, Funny

    I misunderstood. I tought it meant he took a picture of the speedometer every mile. For some reason, I was strangely disappointed to find that this was not the case.