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 6×6 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 You still need to install the Trinket USB drivers
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!
How I Designed This
Credits:
ApostleofColour
Download 3D models
| File | File size |
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Lux_Camera
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8 MB |