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[Jonas Kroyer] is a digital photographer, with a fascination with old cameras and pairing the two together sounded like a fun idea. Searching around on the net he fell in love with the design of the Zeiss Ikon Ikonette (1929-31), and found one with a chipped lens. After dismantling the camera completely, it was found out that he needed the lens/shutter mechanism, the bellows, and the rails … [Read more...]
Shots of this Canon AE-1 camera-gone-digital have a lot of people scratching their heads. Originally there were a lot of "that's been photoshopped" cries but the video after the break shows that it physically exists. This particular model of camera hasn't been manufactured since 1984 so there's little chance that the company's bringing it back in a digital format. What we have here is a classic … [Read more...]
[Mike Bradley] wanted to use his oscilloscope to display 8 channels of digital signals. Alas, the analog unit didn't have this capability. Not to worry, he threw together an adapter module that does the trick. Using a PIC 18F26K20 microcontroller he inputs four or eight channel digital logic (at 5V) and filters the output to an analog signal that the oscilloscope can interpret. What you see in the … [Read more...]
[Kieran] let us know about his hybrid analog/binary clock. The circuitry behind the clock is nothing too new. An Arduino combined with a Chronodot to produce an accurate clock. What we really enjoyed however was the creative implementation of an old British Telecom Linesman's Multimeter as the case. The analog meter acts as the seconds hand, while a another display made of LEDs diffused with … [Read more...]
Kodak managed to release a product with a big fat security vulnerability. [Casey] figured out that the Kodak W820 WiFi capable digital frame can be hijacked for dubious purposes. The frame can add Internet content as widgets; things like Facebook status, tweets, and pictures. The problem is that the widgets are based on a feed from a website that was publicly accessible. The only difference in the … [Read more...]
Analog clocks now a days get no respect. Everyone is digital this, or binary that, and we admit it is nice to look over and see the time promptly displayed. But there's something about the quiet ticking and ominous feeling you get when around a large intricate clock that you know some serious time has been invested. Nostalgia feelings aside, [Alan] from Hacked Gadgets introduced us to his Gear … [Read more...]
A while back we looked at [Matthias'] one-pin dot matrix printer. Now we're jumping over to his woodworking website to feast on his wooden binary adding machine. His creation uses glass marbles as the data for this device. A resolution of up to six bits can be set on the top of the adder, then dropped into the machine as one number. With each new drop, the number is added to the total stored in … [Read more...]
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