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Day: September 21, 2004

Building A Megapixel Digital Camera From A Flatbed Scanner

September 21, 2004 by Phillip Torrone 3 Comments

scanner

this is really neat, a fellow starting playing around with his scanner and actually made it in to a digital camera. now you might be thinking, why? this was done back in 2000 when 2mp cameras were thousands of dollars, all for under $100, i’m going to pick upa  cheap $49 scanner and see what’s possible now

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