My goal is to design and produce a fully-fledged camera, using easily purchased off-the-shelf components, without having to rely on anything pulled from a potentially valuable piece of equipment. A secondary goal is also to make this camera completely open source through rapid-prototyping techniques such as laser cutting and 3D printing, and the Arduino physical computing platform.

Type 6x6 Box Camera Media 120 Roll Film Objective 65mm f/5.6 Single Element, Coated Viewfinder Waist-level Brilliant finder Shutter Electromechanical single-leaf, 1/125-1s + B&T Aperture Rotating diaphragm, f/5.6-32 Dimensions 7.9 x 9.4 x 11.7 cm Construction SLS Polyamide (body), Stainless Steel (shutter, aperture)

Parts List

Electrical

Part Qty Source Notes Adafruit Trinket 5V 1 Adafruit Adafruit Quarter-size Protoboard 1 Adafruit Transistors, TIP120 2 Adafruit Perhaps a bit overkill Diode, 1N4001 1 Adafruit Solenoid, 5V 1 SparkFun Rotary Switch, 10 position BCD DIP 1 Jameco Could be substituted by a 10K trimpot Rocker Switch, SPST 1 Jameco Resistors, 1/4W, Asst. Values ? eBay 1% tolerance recommended for binary adder Battery, 7.4V 500mAh Turnigy LiPo 1 HobbyKing You will also want a charger Connectors, JST PH 4 eBay If you want to avoid hard wiring Connectors, JST BEC 1 eBay Female battery connector Momentary Button, SPST w/ LED 1 eBay Any 12mm momentary button will do

Optical

Part Qty Source Notes PCX Lens, f=30mm, d=15mm 2 Anchor Optics Brilliant finder lenses. A tad pricey. Coated lenses available. 23084 Positive Meniscus Lens, f=80mm, d=19mm 1 Anchor Optics Objective lens. Coated. AX73931 Mirror, 17 x 23 x 1mm 1 Anchor Optics Brilliant finder mirror. AX31417

Mechanical

Part Qty Source Notes M3 CSK Machine Screws 10 McMaster M3 Hex Nuts, Thin 10 McMaster 1/4"-20 Square Nuts 1 McMaster Tripod Nut Spacer, L=2.5", d=0.25" 2 McMaster Makeshift film rollers Ball Bearing, d=3mm 1 eBay Lens helical bearings Screws, No.1 L=1/4" 1 McMaster Screws, No.0 L=3/8" 1 McMaster Screws, No.0 L=1/8" 1 McMaster Machine Screws, 4-40 L=1/4" 1 McMaster Film roller screws Torsion Spring 1 McMaster Shutter return spring Stainless Steel Plate 1 McMaster Mat'l for laser cut parts Magnets, d=3/8", t=1/16" 2 eBay, CMS

You'll need to install the Arduino IDE and Trinket drivers available from Adafruit. Adafruit has a version on the Arduino IDE compatable with Trinket (https://learn.adafruit.com/introducing-trinket/setting-up-with-arduino-ide).

You still need to install the Trinket USB drivers (https://learn.adafruit.com/introducing-trinket/starting-the-bootloader). The Trinket bootloader isn't as plug-and-play as say, an Uno. Arduino Code

There are additional parts! You will need this file to make metal parts for the aperture wheel, shutter, pressure plate, focus distance scale, etc. A laser cutting service like Pololu will know what to do with this file. (Note! There is a typo - these should be cut from 0.025" stainless steel) Email me for the file!

12blues@gmail.com

Credit it to http://kadookacameraworks.com/open.html)