Photographer makes Polaroid-like camera with e-paper

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Photographer and e-paper enthusiast Cameron Dowd has designed and built a remarkable camera. His camera takes photos directly onto an e-paper display. You can then hang it on your fridge, for example.

An e-paper display is a screen that can retain its image without needing power. By combining such a display with a simple digital camera, Cameron has created a kind of hybrid Polaroid camera.

The display can hold just one photo. So each new photo overwrites the previous image. When you take a new photo, you first have to decide whether it is going to be better than your current image.

What is nice about the concept is that the display receives the photo from the camera wirelessly. You can remove the display from the camera and then hang it on your fridge, for example. There are magnets on the back to make the connection.

On the Hackaday.io website, the photographer explains how he made this project.

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