Instagif, a Polaroid camera that prints animated GIFs
Thursday 31 August 2017, 17:34 by Elja Trum | 4,020 views | 1 commentThis article was translated from Dutch with the help of AI. Read the original.
How do you make a Polaroid camera digital? The simple answer would be a digital camera with a printer, but it can be more creative. Abhishek Singh made the Instagif NextStep, a Polaroid camera that prints animated GIFs.
He based the camera on a Raspberry Pi 3 with Raspberry Pi Cam V2 and an SD memory card. When you press the shutter, the camera records a three-second animation. It then sends the photo via a small wifi network to the cartridge, which then comes out.
To complete the Polaroid experience, a fade-in animation starts after the photo is ejected. This gives you the effect of the animation slowly appearing, just like Polaroid photos slowly appear.
You can simply use a cartridge again after ejecting it, by the way. The animation is then overwritten.
Want to build your own Instagif NextStep?
You can find a complete guide here.
Via: Tweakers
About the author
Elja Trum is the founder of Photofacts and online photography course website Photofacts Academy. He has been writing about photography since 2006. Elja is also the author of (Dutch) books on composition, black-and-white photography, flash photography and portrait photography.
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1 comment
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Chris wrote on Tuesday 5 September 2017 at 12:51 | replyHarry Potter already knew those prints a few years ago too 😃
Translated from Dutch.
Fortunately, there are still creative people who keep looking for new things.
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