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Subject: 
RE: digital camera entirely made of mindstorms?
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lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Mon, 19 Jul 1999 15:43:25 GMT
Original-From: 
Jim Thomas <jim.thomas@trw=AvoidSpam=.com>
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If the original image they took was the same size (in pixels) as the image
displayed on the web page then it should not be blocky.  The reason you
should expect it to be blurry looking is that each pixel is imaged one at a
time so whatever image is resolved onto the sensor is averaged into one
pixel.  Chances are there is some overlap where adjacent pixels are seeing
the same part of the scene.  It takes excellent optics and mechanical
positioning to get a good picture this way -- lego parts won't get you
either.

JT

-----Original Message-----
From: mattdm@mattdm.org [mailto:mattdm@mattdm.org]
Sent: Friday, July 16, 1999 12:23 PM
To: lego-robotics@crynwr.com
Subject: digital camera entirely made of mindstorms?


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?


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