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Francois

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Arduino meets SX-70: OpenSX70 Project
« on: October 18, 2018, 03:18:11 PM »
This was bound to happen!
The  strange marriage of a microcontroller and an SX70.
Meet the OpenSX70 project
https://petapixel.com/2018/10/17/opensx70-teaching-the-old-polaroid-sx-70-new-tricks/
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Re: Arduino meets SX-70: OpenSX70 Project
« Reply #1 on: October 18, 2018, 04:34:14 PM »
MINT has been selling SX-70s with these capabilities for years now.
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Re: Arduino meets SX-70: OpenSX70 Project
« Reply #2 on: October 18, 2018, 09:12:30 PM »
I know, but they're really expensive.
This project being open source, it should be much cheaper in the end.
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Re: Arduino meets SX-70: OpenSX70 Project
« Reply #3 on: October 20, 2018, 02:10:33 AM »
I may have to steal back the SX70 I gave my niece so I can try this ;D

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Re: Arduino meets SX-70: OpenSX70 Project
« Reply #4 on: October 20, 2018, 02:57:49 PM »
Well, you know what they say about stealing candy from a kid  ;)
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