More Cheap Aerial Photography

ptorrone writes "If you have an old digital camera laying around and pick up a $1.50 Timer Chip from RadioShack or DigiKey you can turn it in to a great aerial photography camera, this how-to from Engadget shows how they did it along with some other projects with the modded camera." We also linked to part 1.

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"they" ?

[Quixote]

ptorrone writes .... this how-to from Engadget shows how they did it along with some other projects with the modded camera.

You know, I hate to be the "astroturfing nazi" of /., but seeing that the article is written by Phillip Torrone, shouldn't the submitter (Phillip Torrone, it appears) say "... how we did it" ?

I don't like it when I see people submit stories as if they are a third party and just "happened" to come across an article, which they themselves have written.

If you wrote something and find it worthy of the /. crowd, then step forward and claim ownership, dammit! We won't hold it against ya.

Re:"they" ?

[MrBlue VT]

How much are you paying Slashdot for getting all of these Engadget crap articles on the front page? It looks like you just take old concepts that have already been on Slashdot in the past a million times and do a half assed job of copying them:

• link 1
• link 2
• link 3
• link 4
• link 5
• ad nauseum

Seriously, I've seen 8 Engaget crap articles this month alone.

Note: I'll probably get bitchslapped or have this post deleted by Slashdot editors. Why don't they just admit they are taking money for posting these "articles" on the front page?

Re:20 years ago?

[irokitt]

In my day, we had to climb to the top of a brontosaurus with a stone tablet and a chisel in order to get aerial pictures. You young things have it easy.

/end older fart rant

Re:DHS

[morcheeba]

That's interesting, but I don't know how effective it is.

First, at altitude, focus isn't necessary because everything will be close enough to infinity (hyperfocal). So destroying an autofocus sensor won't help.

Second, my camera can withstand looking at the sun for a period of time (not much time, I'm sure). And that's a focused light source -- it'll be hard to make a laser brighter than the sun over such a large area. (easy to do if you point the laser, but hard to do if it's diffused). No real use in using a laser, though - you don't need the monochromaticity or the coherentness, so you might as well use a large xenon strobe behind an IR filter.

Lastly, won't stop any film-based camera: a cheap disposable or an Estes Cineroc.

Hope not too much taxpayer money is spent on this system!