Macro Lens from a Pringles Can

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Macro Lens from a Pringles Can

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday December 12, 2005 @05:51AM 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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isharq and B-B by LearnToSpell · 2005-12-12 05:52 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Anybody else submitting anything? No?

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1. Re:isharq and B-B by mkw87 · 2005-12-12 05:59 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  Anybody else submitting anything? No?
  Don't worry, I'm sure **Beatles-Beatles is working something up for us right now.
  
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What happened... by Anonymous Coward · 2005-12-12 05:54 · Score: -1, Offtopic

... to the magnetic north story?
1. Re:What happened... by Anonymous Coward · 2005-12-12 06:40 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  Well sure, this was offtopic.
  
  But there was a 'shift in magnetic north' story on the front page which then got replaced by this one.
  
  I'm not a subscriber so it was released to the front page when I saw it, and when I refreshed a few minutes later it had been replaced by this one.
  
  And personally I think that story was more interesting than pringles can hacks...
Slashdotted by Professional+Heckler · 2005-12-12 05:56 · Score: -1, Offtopic

The poor soul doesnt know what hit him. The website is moving slower than an ant caught in molasses.
Someone should set up a mirror.
Prof.
Re: was the pringles can in english or spanish? by passingNotes.com · 2005-12-12 05:56 · Score: -1, Offtopic

and did you know that like a tennis ball canister, you can also fart into a pringles can and then leave it in there for some lucky soul to open up later on? i think that's a more promising application.

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Ah the dissapearing dupe by antifoidulus · 2005-12-12 05:57 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Slashdot, where we support freedom of speech and don't delete comments unless they embarass the editors!

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1. Re:Ah the dissapearing dupe by mkw87 · 2005-12-12 06:12 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  Slashdot, where we support freedom of speech and don't delete comments unless they embarass the editors!
  =/ He's not joking, mine's gone already :(
  I guess I should have put "Die Microsoft" at the end or something.
  
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2. Re:Ah the dissapearing dupe by joe+155 · 2005-12-12 06:24 · 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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Re:Slashdotted before the first post... by kadathseeker · 2005-12-12 06:13 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Once my pants pop the fundon't stop...

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Slashdotted by atomic_toaster · 2005-12-12 06:20 · Score: -1, Offtopic

"Server not found..."

Dammit.
Re:The first time I ever felt deceived by /. by johnny+cashed · 2005-12-12 06:23 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Get use to it. The deceived part. This is slashdot, where misleading headlines is par for the course.
Re:The first time I ever felt deceived by /. by johnny+cashed · 2005-12-12 06:25 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Oh, and bad spelling too. I meant, get used to it (the deception and bad spelling). There is also a lot of bad grammar. I'll stop now, I swear...
Re:SCUTTLEMONKEY HAS THE CONN by Anonymous Coward · 2005-12-12 06:29 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Who has the deck?
Re:Yagi antenna using a Pringles can... by Valacosa · 2005-12-12 06:39 · 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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LOLERSKATESSS by Anonymous Coward · 2005-12-12 06:57 · Score: -1, Offtopic

lollllllllllllllllllllllllllllerskates
Fun things to do with the Fat Free Version by TheNarrator · 2005-12-12 06:58 · Score: -1, Offtopic

The little known health benefits of eating junk food...

Severe 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo- p-dioxin (TCDD) intoxication: kinetics and trials to enhance elimination in two patients.

In spring 1998, two women were diagnosed with severe 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo- p-dioxin (TCDD) intoxication. Over the following 3 years, TCDD levels were monitored under various attempts to enhance its elimination, and the half-lives were evaluated. Olestra, a non-digestible, non-absorbable dietary fat substitute, was continuously administered to the patients either as pure substance or in potato-chips...As previously reported, administration of olestra was found to be effective in increasing the fecal excretion of TCDD.

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Irak WMDs!!! by xutopia · 2005-12-12 07:13 · 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...