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Macro Lens from a Pringles Can
isharq writes "In a cool little feat of extremely low-tech hardware hacking, Photocritic has created a macro lens out of a Pringles can. According to the article: "with less than £1 worth of equipment, a little bit of sweat and tears, you can build yourself a surprisingly good macro lens". The results are astonishing."
And the chips aren't half-bad either.
Don't piss in my ear and tell me its raining!
Next, you are going to tell me that you can make some sort of 802.11 antenna with a pringles can.
And whats with this "do it yourself" building projects? My fingers are too greasy and fat to perform such feats.
[I can picture a world without war, without hate. I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it]
Maybe they should have taken the money they saved on their macro lens and upgraded their server/connection.
Their server seems to have been reduced to rubble. Anyone got a mirror?
Lost at C:>. Found at C.
Sshh.. they were just testing thier Pringles can server running on a Pringles can amplified wireless network while beating Pringles can drums.
Once you pop the fun don't stop, oh wait...
...was probably constructed of a Pringles can, too.
The Chronic *WHAT* les of Narnia!
...or you will end up looking like that biggest nerd on the planet.
It is also great for viewing microscopic flakes of potato chip residue. Paper towel rolls, in all their inadequacy, are known to be suffering from lenses envy.
He who knows best knows how little he knows. - Thomas Jefferson
And a pox on the editor that approved this trash. Sure, it's neat that you can use a Pringles can as a lens mount. I've used them as coil winding cores, waveguides, insect traps, drums, cookie cutters, and even food storage containers before. Doesn't make it news!
Of course, if I wrote up the cookie-cutter application as "Pringles can provides limitless food supply", it'd probably make the front page.
Oh yeah, but check this out, if you take a pringles tube and hold it up to one eye and then put your hand up right next to it it totally looks like you are looking through a hole in your hand... it's wicked awesome
Slashdot, where everyone is so american that no one has any idea what Freedom of Speech is, and how it doesn't apply to private websites you read in your underwear and never pay for.
...when I show you how to construct: ... from a Pringles can.
- A working fusion reactor
- A 3" mortar
- A simple teleportation device
AND
- A cat
Next, someone's gonna discover that these cans make convenient containers for chips.
I had some "friends" who told me that since I did not grow tomatoes from seed I was not a gardener.
I ate very nice tomatoes that year. Nuts to gardening, I prefer to eat!
Autonomous Retard -- Is your camp safe? UnsafeCamp.com
"Just think of what the Professor could have done with these cans!"
Ginger's or Mary-Anne's?
Adventure City Tours
The RIAA has not granted you a license to use your CD in this manner. Why do you hate America??
The cameraman then asked "which eye?"
John
When I mentally "hear" that line, it is indeed with a fake eh-spanish accent.
Therefore, I conclude that IMDb is probably correct.
Do daemons dream of electric sleep()?