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Subject: 
RE: digital camera entirely made of mindstorms?
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Mon, 19 Jul 1999 15:43:25 GMT
Original-From: 
Jim Thomas <jim.thomas@trw^StopSpammers^.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?
> 
> 
> --
> Matthew Miller                      --->
> mattdm@mattdm.org
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> Did you check the web site first?:
> http://www.crynwr.com/lego-robotics

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