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Re: A camera that snaps a GIF and ejects a cartridge that displays it

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Post by semperdark »

andrepd wrote: post #195
DonHopkins wrote: post #191

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Massive amounts of electronic litter" and "amazing how technology has advanced" into a mad rush to waste resources and energy reminded me of this fire, and all the obsolete PC's and GPU's and ASIC's and coal power plants littering the landscape due to Bitcoin mining: https://www.coindesk.com/gallery-fire-destroys-thai-bitcoin-... https://qz.com/1055126/photos-china-has-one-of-worlds-larges... Bitcoin mining consumes…

That (i) is absolutely irrelevant to the discussion at hand and (ii) a completely fallacious argument, since Bitcoin mining amounts to less than 0.01% of the world's energy consumption, providing a useful service in return (compare with gold mining, which is actual mindless busywork and consumes way more energy than Bitcoin does.

> less than 0.01% of the world's energy consumption

Actually, it's 0.08% and rising. The energy for 1 transaction could power almost 6 U.S. homes for a full day.

https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption

Re: A camera that snaps a GIF and ejects a cartridge that displays it

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Post by nomel »

abhi3188 wrote: post #108
ChuckMcM wrote: post #53

Hah, not exactly what most people think when you use the word 'print' but then again ... People have asked what is the impact of 'free' CPUs. Something Dave Rosenthal realized way back in the 90's was that the electronics for driving a display could be printed on the margins of the display and eliminate the need for a separate controller board. Having watched the evolution of displays and seeing Mary Lou Jepsen's wor…

Definitely agree with you.. this was just a concept for me that I was able to build with off the shelf parts but this is exactly the type of discussion I was hoping to get going..

I have a feeling that personal displays (as with cellphones now) will continue to exist until man stops existing. I imagine the opposite trend will occur, where each person owns fewer and fewer display devices. I can't imagine a justification now, or in the future, for buying some single use display. Once we get to a nice head mounted AR system, it would be very silly to have anything more.

Re: A camera that snaps a GIF and ejects a cartridge that displays it

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ChuckMcM wrote: post #53

Hah, not exactly what most people think when you use the word 'print' but then again ... People have asked what is the impact of 'free' CPUs. Something Dave Rosenthal realized way back in the 90's was that the electronics for driving a display could be printed on the margins of the display and eliminate the need for a separate controller board. Having watched the evolution of displays and seeing Mary Lou Jepsen's wor…

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Re: A camera that snaps a GIF and ejects a cartridge that displays it

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Post by asp_hornet »

ATsch wrote: post #47
fairpx wrote: post #33

Very cool. If you can make that cartridge dirt cheap, you will have invented an exciting new technology. Build a V2 with cheaper tech, change your wording a bit as to what the device does, keep the polaroid link a little bit, but make it your own and then I think you'll have something that could kick ass on Kickstarter.

The Waste produced by this device would be immense.

I imagine you don't throw out the picture when you're bored, you just take a new picture over it.

Re: A camera that snaps a GIF and ejects a cartridge that displays it

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Post by DonHopkins »

semperdark wrote: post #221
andrepd wrote: post #195

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That (i) is absolutely irrelevant to the discussion at hand and (ii) a completely fallacious argument, since Bitcoin mining amounts to less than 0.01% of the world's energy consumption, providing a useful service in return (compare with gold mining, which is actual mindless busywork and consumes way more energy than Bitcoin does.

> less than 0.01% of the world's energy consumption Actually, it's 0.08% and rising. The energy for 1 transaction could power almost 6 U.S. homes for a full day. https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption

#Bitcoin enables Chinese entrepreneurs to export coal by burning it and using the energy to mine.

— Emin Gün Sirer (@el33th4xor) July 20, 2015

https://www.buybitcoinworldwide.com/mining/china/

Gold mining doesn't provide a useful service in return, huh? As will_brown pointed out, Bitcoin isn't a necessary ingredient in smartphones, electronics, jewelry, medicine, dentistry, aerospace, glassmaking, like gold is.

http://geology.com/minerals/gold/uses-of-gold.shtml

Forget about US homes: How many homes in underdeveloped countries could one Bitcoin transaction power?

Re: A camera that snaps a GIF and ejects a cartridge that displays it

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Post by nomel »

disposabledisp wrote: post #52
QAPereo wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Make the carts NFC and turn Share on when you remove it. You could Tap to swap whatever gif is currently displayed on someone else's cart. That's probably easier than dirt cheap, disposable displays.

Do disposable displays exist? The ones i have, at least, aren't biodegradable at all, and are in fact barely recyclable at all. Seems like you're proposing an environmental disaster.

You guys are all nuts for taking this silly project seriously. I'll just use my phone.

Re: A camera that snaps a GIF and ejects a cartridge that displays it

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Post by js2 »

abhi3188 wrote: post #120
js2 wrote: post #92

> I replaced the functionality of the black knob. To be honest I don't even know what its purpose was. Exposure compensation dial.

ah thanks for letting me know! I was just working off images of the camera I found online, I guess I could have actually used it to control exposure on the piCam

I'm old enough to have used the SX-70 and OneStep as a kid. Complete with the flash bulb bar. It helps that my dad owned a darkroom/camera store (and eventually one-hour lab). :-)
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