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XO clip-on sports viewfinder made of LEGO bricks!

Mike Lee

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December 25, 2007, 06:32:04 PM

The OLPC XO-1 still / video camera only faces in the same direction as the screen. When the camera and screen are turned to face the camera subject, you can press the "O" game button to take a picture. Because it's hard to frame up the shot without a viewfinder, I made one out of seven standard LEGO bricks that slips into the USB port.

Construction photos here
http://www.flickr.com/photos/curiouslee/sets/72157603547309133/


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December 25, 2007, 07:02:33 PM

Awesome. I expect this will only be the start of it

Cheers,

Infamy


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December 31, 2007, 12:15:46 AM

Brilliant!


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Mike Lee

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January 27, 2008, 06:46:22 PM

Phil Carrizzi's riff on my LEGO viewfinder

My daughter Cici likes it!

Another reason I love the internets: Jewelry designer and digital sculptor Phil Carrizzi saw my LEGO brick viewfinder, took it a leap forward in CAD software and grew his version on a 3D printer!

More here:

www.flickr.com/search/?q=xoview&w=18196192%40N00


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February 25, 2008, 12:11:48 PM

Quote from: Mike Lee on January 27, 2008, 06:46:22 PM

This looks like a great item for the XO Accessory Store that's been suggested in another thread.


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#5 Re: XO clip-on sports viewfinder made of LEGO bricks!

Mike Lee

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April 13, 2008, 06:38:51 PM

Update:

The XOView viewfinder has come to a nice collaborative success. Aunti Mame is selling a limited edition batch of them on XOExplosion.com:

And I delivered a few to OLPC Headquarters on April 2nd because Walter (and Nicholas) are fans of the accessory:

Thanks again to Phil Carrizzi and Aunti Mame for their enthusiasm and support .


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Mike Lee

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September 28, 2009, 07:14:20 PM

April 2009

Stefan "Dogi" Unterhauser's hack of the XOview XO laptop camera viewfinder adding a USB flash drive

September 2009

Vik Olliver's camera viewfinder printed from a RepRap machine!

Photo by Brenda Wallace. Story blogged here. Another post from February 2009


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