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   Ding Dang Trevor Flowers (trevorflowers@machines.social)'s status on Sunday, 14-Jan-2024 11:01:35 JST Ding Dang Trevor Flowers

   The rear input panel will have:
   📸 a five way input nubbie (https://www.adafruit.com/product/504)
   📸 three tactile buttons
   The top input panel will have:
   📸 a six position mode dial
   📸 an on/off slide switch.
   Both panels will be covered by printed TPU layers with text and iconography.

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     Ding Dang Trevor Flowers (trevorflowers@machines.social)'s status on Sunday, 14-Jan-2024 11:01:32 JST Ding Dang Trevor Flowers

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     This is a DIY film camera but I dig the mechanical design of the shutter and the overall box camera feel created by Kevin Kadooka.
     https://www.kevinkadooka.com/lux

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     Ding Dang Trevor Flowers (trevorflowers@machines.social)'s status on Sunday, 14-Jan-2024 11:01:33 JST Ding Dang Trevor Flowers

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     Here's another person messing about with a DIY handheld camera. At this point I'm not interested in building a board to support a raw image sensor like he did. Maybe someday. In the meantime I'll have fun with modules built by EEs who know what they're doing.
     https://youtu.be/Ma9FrN5COIo

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     Ding Dang Trevor Flowers (trevorflowers@machines.social)'s status on Sunday, 14-Jan-2024 11:01:33 JST Ding Dang Trevor Flowers

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     Apparently YT has figured me out because now it's digging up all of the camera hackers making weird decisions about photons. Check out this wild "scanner camera" that uses a linear CCD sensor from a document scanner.
     https://youtu.be/MPhY1VS-wdQ

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     Ding Dang Trevor Flowers (trevorflowers@machines.social)'s status on Sunday, 14-Jan-2024 11:01:34 JST Ding Dang Trevor Flowers

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     One could probably make an interesting #mdc style camera with this ESP32 + display combo. Put it in the flip-around display module and the entire main body shell would be available for batteries, storage, imaging sensors, other sensors like accelerometers, nice microphones and speakers, and whatever other silly thing comes into one's head.
     Me.
     I'm the one.
     But not for V1.
     https://www.cnx-software.com/2023/12/27/lilygo-t4-s3-board-2-41-inch-amoled-touchscreen-display-esp32-s3r8/

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     Ding Dang Trevor Flowers (trevorflowers@machines.social)'s status on Sunday, 14-Jan-2024 11:01:35 JST Ding Dang Trevor Flowers

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     It just occurred to me that since I'm writing the software and the camera will be on a network I can probably make it dang easy to directly post to PixelFed and other fediverse services.
     One related topic is that many of the SBCs that I want to try are powerful enough to host web sites. It could be pretty neat to have a camera that is its own PixelFed instance. Hard on the batteries, tho.

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     Ding Dang Trevor Flowers (trevorflowers@machines.social)'s status on Sunday, 14-Jan-2024 11:02:23 JST Ding Dang Trevor Flowers

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     Playing around with a new body shape for my ding dang cam. I plan to assemble prototype 02 using the previous body design but it's interesting to think about taking advantage of the blobject creation abilities of 3D printers.
     #mdc

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     Ding Dang Trevor Flowers (trevorflowers@machines.social)'s status on Sunday, 14-Jan-2024 11:02:24 JST Ding Dang Trevor Flowers

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     TIL that Send Cut Send now waterjet cut phenolic (AKA micarta) which I suspect will feel nice as the top and bottom plates of my camera. Instead of that cold steel feel it'll be pressed linen.