Camera Built from Thread Spool (Jun, 1940)
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Source: Popular Science ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Jun, 1940
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Source: Popular Science ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Jun, 1940
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New Use for Old Spool – as a Miniature Camera
A MINIATURE camera built into a thread spool is a recent accomplishment of John Becker, of Chicago, Ill., who has been saving spools for a period of forty years and finding a number of odd uses for them. Becker is shown snapping a picture with his odd spool camera.
Camera built from thread spool…
Here another one for this retro Sunday, it looks like a tiny pinhole camera inside a spool of thread (Popular Science 1940) – Link. We have tons of how-to guides on making pinhole cameras, so you could likely (re)make……
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i’m eric. joining a couple boards and looking
forward to participating. hehe unless i get
too distracted!
eric
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Hello
Just stopping in to say hi to y’all as a new member.
Aaron
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