Category: Scanning
Slide scanner scanning slides!
This is the 90% complete version of the slide scanner V1. There are some flaws and quirks and such… but damn… it WORKS!! Next, I need to add on the two other cameras (USB Logitech jobbies) to capture pictures of the...
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Working Backlight
One of the last bits of the slide scanner I needed to make was to make a backlight for the slide...
Read MoreSlide scanner – Let there be light
https://youtu.be/Bs41gzhod7Y So I have the Arduino controlling both the shutter for the Canon camera I’m planning on using as well as a string of LEDs. This will provide both lighting for the slide backlight as well as for...
Read MoreAutomating a Canon camera with an Arduino – Part 2
I did some experimentation today with the control setup I was writing about… This is a super simple circuit that I didn’t even need the breadboard for, but I broke it out because… why not? All that’s...
Read MoreAutomating a Canon camera with an Arduino – Part 1
So, what I want to do is to be able to push a button on my computer and have that start a process to turn on the right lighting, take a photo with my camera (in this case being used like you would back in the days of a copy...
Read MoreScanner enclosure!
Yesterday I put together the pieces I cut on Tuesday to get done with the primary outer enclosure for the slide scanner. The bottom has the rotary mechanism I wrote about in the past. It’s not going to sit on the bottom,...
Read MoreIndoor Woodworking
My slide scanner project is one step closer to completion! The Festool system with the MFT/3 and the TS55 worked admirably. I did notice that the MFT/3 was a bit out of square by a degree or so, but that was easy enough to sort...
Read MorePremature Optimization – Hardware edition
It’s a well-known fact in programming circles that trying to make something run faster (or whatever metric you’re chasing) before you know that it’s too slow can lead to all variety of problems. Complexity...
Read MoreA whirly thing
I think I finally got to a working design. I decided to take a page from how my reloading press works with its rotary mechanism and make the same thing myself. This saves all sorts of machinery to make it work, and substitutes,...
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Copy-stand
In the past year I’ve taken for granted that the idea of using a digital SLR to...
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