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Macro Lens from a Pringles Can

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the things-that-bear-closer-scrutiny dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Ah the dissapearing dupe by joe+155 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Before mine went with the whole topic it got mod'd down to "0" for being "offtopic"... I'm new here, should I have ignored the fact that they had coppied and pasted from the "Old Stories" section... or should they re-name it to "old... and future topics"

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  2. Re:Yagi antenna using a Pringles can... by Valacosa · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Uh, you realize the grandparent was a joke, right? Not the first case of a slashdot geek not getting a joke, and admittedly, not as bad as this one.

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  3. Irak WMDs!!! by xutopia · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    "Iraq's aggressive attempts to obtain proscribed high-strength aluminum tubes are of significant concern. All intelligence experts agree that Iraq is seeking nuclear weapons and that these tubes could be used in a centrifuge enrichment program. Most intelligence specialists assess this to be the intended use, but some believe that these tubes are probably intended for conventional top secret macro photography programs."

    Hussein's lawyers claim they were to be used to create macro lenses but apparently the grand jury feels his story just wouldn't wash.

    More to come...