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by apu • 13 years ago

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apu• 13 years ago

This is a really cool project from my former PhD lab. It's a camera kit that teaches kids how cameras work by letting them assemble one themselves. The website [1] includes a lot of educational material describing how and why each component works, along with interactive animations.

The camera itself is also interesting in that it contains a few different "computational imaging" lens-systems within: normal, wide-angle, and stereo, "all-in-one". See [2] for a description of what computational imaging means in general.

I'm happy to try to answer any questions (this wasn't my project, but I did play around with one).

[1] http://www.bigshotcamera.com/experience

[2] http://www.cs.columbia.edu/CAVE/projects/what_is/

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