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digital camera entirely made of mindstorms?
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lugnet.robotics
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Fri, 16 Jul 1999 19:23:10 GMT
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mattdm@mattdm.SAYNOTOSPAMorg
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I was browsing Lego's official Mindstorms site, after not having looked for
a while, and came across
http://www.legomindstorms.com/halloffame/getarchiveentry.asp?id=4
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.
Anyone have any more info/insight?
--
Matthew Miller ---> mattdm@mattdm.org
Quotes 'R' Us ---> http://quotes-r-us.org/
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Message has 3 Replies:
 | | Re: digital camera entirely made of mindstorms?
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| (...) A blocky image that had been smoothed or blurred would result in an image similar to what they show. Based on what they show I don't doubt that the camera there does actually work. I bet that it is really slow though. alex -- Did you check the (...) (25 years ago, 17-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics)
| | | Re: digital camera entirely made of mindstorms?
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| (...) Well, you'd have to ask him to be sure ( mailto:amnon@best.com ). But, I think the reason the image isn't blocky is because the robot scans at high resolution. By that I mean, he made the robot scan several hundred "scanlines" with several (...) (25 years ago, 19-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics)
| | | Re: digital camera entirely made of mindstorms?
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| I have more detailed photos of the assembly if you would like to reproduce my results: (URL) 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. (...) (24 years ago, 28-Sep-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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