Macro Lens from a Pringles Can 241
isharq writes "In a cool little feat of extremely low-tech hardware hacking, Photocritic has created a macro lens out of a Pringles can. According to the article: "with less than £1 worth of equipment, a little bit of sweat and tears, you can build yourself a surprisingly good macro lens". The results are astonishing."
The results are astonishing (Score:5, Funny)
Wrong. (Score:5, Funny)
Next, you are going to tell me that you can make some sort of 802.11 antenna with a pringles can.
And whats with this "do it yourself" building projects? My fingers are too greasy and fat to perform such feats.
Hmmmm ..... (Score:5, Funny)
Their server seems to have been reduced to rubble. Anyone got a mirror?
Re:Slashdotted before the first post... (Score:2, Funny)
Once you pop the fun don't stop, oh wait...
The server... (Score:4, Funny)
Make sure you paint the outside of the can... (Score:4, Funny)
It is also great for viewing microscopic flakes of potato chip residue. Paper towel rolls, in all their inadequacy, are known to be suffering from lenses envy.
Dog bites man. No, not even that. Dog slobbers! (Score:2, Funny)
Of course, if I wrote up the cookie-cutter application as "Pringles can provides limitless food supply", it'd probably make the front page.
Re:Astonishingly.. lame (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Ah the dissapearing dupe (Score:4, Funny)
Slashdot, where everyone is so american that no one has any idea what Freedom of Speech is, and how it doesn't apply to private websites you read in your underwear and never pay for.
Tune in next week... (Score:4, Funny)
- A working fusion reactor
- A 3" mortar
- A simple teleportation device
AND
- A cat
Whatever next? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Dog bites man. No, not even that. Dog slobbers! (Score:3, Funny)
It would be selected solely because it contains a grammar mistake.
Re:Lens, my foot! (Score:2, Funny)
I had some "friends" who told me that since I did not grow tomatoes from seed I was not a gardener.
I ate very nice tomatoes that year. Nuts to gardening, I prefer to eat!
Re:Impressive (Score:2, Funny)
Ginger's or Mary-Anne's?
Re:Hmmmm ..... (Score:4, Funny)
Hardly. Ever since slashdot got subscriptions sites have regularly been down and out before the first comment. Must be one of the only good things about being a subscriber, you could actually RTFA (though it seems optional). Anyway, I love DIY articles where you do a MacGyver with two bits of string and a chewing gum, but this is like.. "Ok, we have $X thousand dollars of SLR equipment, let's try using duct tape!"
How much would an actual extension ring cost? I did a quick search and I'm looking at prices in the $10-20 dollar range. Wohoo. It's like "How to build your golden Rolls Royce for $5: 1. Buy a can of gold spray 2. Spray it on your Rolls Royce." Let me know when you can make high-percision optics or high-quality CCDs on the cheap, and I'll attach this pringles can to it.
Re:Hmmmm ..... (Score:5, Funny)
No, but you can make a mirror from an old CD.
Cease and desist, citizen (Score:5, Funny)
Re:The results are astonishing (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Dog bites man. No, not even that. Dog slobbers! (Score:1, Funny)
The really pringlish thing is that you admit to it and expect the rest of us to pringle along with you.
Re:Lens, my foot! (Score:5, Funny)
The cameraman then asked "which eye?"
Re:The results are astonishing (Score:2, Funny)
Re:IMDb (Score:3, Funny)
Therefore, I conclude that IMDb is probably correct.