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Re: digital camera entirely made of mindstorms?
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Thu, 28 Sep 2000 16:54:07 GMT
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I have more detailed photos of the assembly if you would like to reproduce my
results:
http://www.best.com/~amnon/Homepage/Games/LegoCam/Camera.jpg
It is essentially two turntables fastened together with angle brackets. It
uses a touch sensor to home the yaw, and a rotation sensor to control the
pitch. Focus is accomplished with a sliding axle. It uses two motors for
positioning.
-Amnon
In lugnet.robotics, Matthew Miller writes:
> I was browsing Lego's official Mindstorms site, after not having looked for
> a while, and came across
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> http://www.legomindstorms.com/halloffame/getarchiveentry.asp?id=4
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> Which claims to be an all-lego digital camera. I know this concept has been
> mentioned on here, but I hadn't heard of anyone actually doing it. I'm
> willing to believe it's possible, but I have a hard time believing that this
> could generate the grey-scale image pictured. For one thing, it's very
> blurry, but it's not very blocky, which is what I'd expect. And I'm not sure
> that Dr. Charles Lightning's magnifying glass could provide the kind of
> precise focus this seems to require.
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> Anyone have any more info/insight?
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