Building a Digicam from Scanner Elements

An Anonymous Coward writes: "Want a weird & wobbly digital camera, but don't want to spend over $100? Well, Matthias Wandel, whose site is due for some /. lovin', used the guts of a cheap scanner, some camera parts, and scrap wood to build a very high quality digitcal camera. Read about progress at this site. Oh, and he also builds things out of legos as well." I personally think that his Jenga Pistol and wasp-vacuum are pretty neat too.

hmm

[Joe the Lesser]

I tried something like this once, but instead of a scanner, I used a toaster.

Well, I had to add some parts, but I can say for sure that the pics I took were hot.

yet another great hack!

[bflong]

the guts of a cheap scanner, some camera parts, and scrap wood to build a very high quality digitcal camera.

...you should see the web server he made with a cheap watch, some cat 3 cable, and toliet paper... oh, nevermind.... it just exploded.

Something Similar

[xanadu-xtroot.com]

If I still had the pics to prove it, I would post them somewhere.

I once had one of those old Logitech hand scanner jobs. So what I did was take the glass top off my stereo cabinet and would use the hand scanner on that to take pictures. It worked surprisingly well, actually. It was only B&W, but the pics were damn near perfect.

I got my GF at the time to take her pants off and squat over the pane of glass...

Yes, I'm being serious... :-)

Re:Something Similar

[wackybrit]

I once had one of those old Logitech hand scanner jobs. So what I did was take the glass top off my stereo cabinet and would use the hand scanner on that to take pictures. [..] I got my GF at the time to take her pants off and squat over the pane of glass...

You almost rose to the rank of a true geek there, but what a wannabe you are! Real geeks don't have girlfriends. I bet you had sex too, right? Begone! And leave us to our regular expressions.

Now try and be smart....

[Anonymous Coward]

Make a scanner out of a digital camera... um... yeah.

Mad Geniuses...

[FFFish]

...are what make the Internet great. Man, I love reading this sort of thing. Makes me wish I were crazy...

Re:Something Similar

[Hatter]

If you're such a full-fledged geek then where's your EFF secret decoder ring?

notice the penny?

[linuxbert]

it was canadian..
just goes to show what can be accomplished when we have snow for so long..

so yep.. this guy did have alot of free time