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Building a Digicam from Scanner Elements

Posted by chrisd on from the can't-believie-this-one-isn't-a-dupe dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes: "Want a weird & wobbly digital camera, but don't want to spend over $100? Well, Matthias Wandel, whose site is due for some /. lovin', used the guts of a cheap scanner, some camera parts, and scrap wood to build a very high quality digitcal camera. Read about progress at this site. Oh, and he also builds things out of legos as well." I personally think that his Jenga Pistol and wasp-vacuum are pretty neat too.

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  1. hmm by Joe+the+Lesser · · Score: 3, Funny

    I tried something like this once, but instead of a scanner, I used a toaster.

    Well, I had to add some parts, but I can say for sure that the pics I took were hot.

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  2. yet another great hack! by bflong · · Score: 5, Funny

    the guts of a cheap scanner, some camera parts, and scrap wood to build a very high quality digitcal camera.

    ...you should see the web server he made with a cheap watch, some cat 3 cable, and toliet paper... oh, nevermind.... it just exploded.

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  3. Something Similar by xanadu-xtroot.com · · Score: 2, Funny

    If I still had the pics to prove it, I would post them somewhere.

    I once had one of those old Logitech hand scanner jobs. So what I did was take the glass top off my stereo cabinet and would use the hand scanner on that to take pictures. It worked surprisingly well, actually. It was only B&W, but the pics were damn near perfect.

    I got my GF at the time to take her pants off and squat over the pane of glass...

    Yes, I'm being serious... :-)

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    1. Re:Something Similar by wackybrit · · Score: 2, Funny

      I once had one of those old Logitech hand scanner jobs. So what I did was take the glass top off my stereo cabinet and would use the hand scanner on that to take pictures. [..] I got my GF at the time to take her pants off and squat over the pane of glass...

      You almost rose to the rank of a true geek there, but what a wannabe you are! Real geeks don't have girlfriends. I bet you had sex too, right? Begone! And leave us to our regular expressions.

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    2. Re:Something Similar by Hatter · · Score: 2, Funny

      If you're such a full-fledged geek then where's your EFF secret decoder ring?

  4. Now try and be smart.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Make a scanner out of a digital camera... um... yeah.

  5. Mad Geniuses... by FFFish · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...are what make the Internet great. Man, I love reading this sort of thing. Makes me wish I were crazy...

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  6. notice the penny? by linuxbert · · Score: 3, Funny

    it was canadian..
    just goes to show what can be accomplished when we have snow for so long..

    so yep.. this guy did have alot of free time