Thinking of this idea a bit i thought maybe u could use a single camera and have it take pictures while it cycles through what it can auto focuses on. a cheap digital camera should be easy to hack a Arduino board

Makes me wonder if this isn’t a fine solution to 3d scanning or a spatially accurate, wide field, machine vision application, as it appears to be a digital “holography” camera.

This may turn out to be handy for machine vision on my project http://www.cubespawn.com

Although the cycling with a single camera would be a more appealing (and lower cost) path to the solution.

This is interesting. I would like to see a “3D” feeling still image. If they’re just using it to make the GIF’s on the website, you can just use any video camera and a rack focus technique to get a very similar effect.

I have seen a similar method done with a single camera in the book “Intelligent Image Processing” by Steve Mann. There is even a program for joining the pictures that is open source that he released http://sourceforge.net/projects/comparametric/. He uses a camera that takes pictures at different focal lengths and different exposure rates to get more dynamic realistic lighting. Here is a paper on it http://wearcam.org/orbits/

@ tulcod
I like “Arduino crap”. If you don’t, you don’t have to read it. You got another cheap, open-source microcontroller you like to use in your projects? Please share!

you can get the same effect in fotoshop

First thing i thought of after seeing that picture: Now police can read tags at any distance!

“eeew arduino!”

…. shut the **** up already! It’s not like he’s just flashing LEDs.

Not to jump on the bandwagon of Arduino-bashing, but… this project is tagged under arduino hacks but not digital camera hacks? WTF? It’s a multi-camera hack where the specific implementation happens to use an arduino for its intended purpose.

Glen: The trolls. Do not feed them.

When PIC programmers become more common, people will complain about all of the PIC projects.

When those Stamps become more common, people will complain about those.

When someone posts a link about a next-generation home-made rocket, that displays innovations based on physics and chemistry, people will complain about that.

They’re trolls. Beneath contempt if they are bitter genuinely mean what they’re saying, and potentially quite funny if they have a good sense of humor.

Either way, they’re haters who would be better off learning and listening. It’s the holidays; don’t stress about their crap. Pick up your arduino and set it to ignite some thermite and roast a troll doll as your christmas present to the internet :)