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DIY night vision scope

DIY night vision scope

From the MAKE Flickr photo pool Member Jiskar built this sweet night vision scope – Finished nightvision device. XX1080 image intensifier tube @ 10kV, powered by two 9V battery blocks, ccfl inverter and voltage multiplier. All mounted in plumbing pipe. Adapter for pentax lenses. IR flashlight mounted on top for small distance illumination. Head over […]

Decode code 39 barcodes manually

Decode code 39 barcodes manually

Davis Remmel writes: Code 39 is easy to recreate because it only uses two types of lines: wide and narrow. Also, each code has a beginning sequence (thin black, wide white, thin black), and an ending sequence (thin black, wide white, thin black, thin white, wide black, thin white, wide black, thin white, thin black.) […]

Cell phone camera turned remote microscope

Cell phone camera turned remote microscope

This project, which began as a class project for UC Berkeley students, uses an ordinary cell phone camera as a medical microscope meant for use in remote or undeveloped countries to diagnose illnesses. The idea is to use the camera with the microscopic lens attachment to take pictures and transmit them over the network for […]