STEM Learning with the World's Simplest Camera

Lab Out Loud by Dale Basler and Brian Bartel

Mar 8, 202401:00:25Education

Video version at: In 2017, Sam Cornwell launched a successful Kickstarter campaign to make a pinhole camera called the Solarcan. Now a successful company with the same name, the Solarcan is a simple camera that takes ext...

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