re: 3Discover: A Hacker's POV

[P3D Gabriel Jacob <jacob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sam Smith writes

>My 3Discover viewer came in the mail today and I wasted no time cracking it
>open to see what made it tick.
>But first I must say that I was very impressed overall. Although the lenses
>are terrible and are fixed  focus, they've at least included an inter-ocular
>adjustment.

Glad to hear you got your 3Discover finally, since it comes at a opportune
time, as the Dr.T imposter was just commenting on it.

>OK, lets get to the meat of the issue: Is it feasible to you use your own
>images in the 3Discover viewer? In short, yes. How this would be
>accomplished may distract a lot of you from trying. For me I've got
>something close enough to almost try it right now.
skipped explanation on how to make own cassettes.
>After the roll is processed, blacken the spot on the bottom between frames
>with a felt pen to line up with the sensor. Presto! Almost-instant
>3Discover views. 
>
>Just so I don't get patent lawyers at my door, I have no intention of going
>into business selling these. It's just an idea which is now public domain.

Great in depth explanation Sam. But I think the basic idea is already in the
public domain, since the idea was posted in P3D awhile back.
Yes, Wrebbit is very touchy on those matters regarding patents and the like.
Here is another simple hacker improvement that can be done. You mention
it has inter-ocular adjustment. Yes that is true but is limited to 2
positions on each side, for a combination of 4 different spacings. The 
spacing provided were not suitable for me and what I did was dremel
out one more notch inside the viewer so that it has 3 positions. This
works well for me and others. Another simple improvement which I have done
is to put a jack so that an DC adaptor can be used with it. As for the 
focussing that is good idea, but I don't see why it would need it since
they seem to be in focus IMO.

Honest gABE, the kiDDDer.



 


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