Geeks Trying To Be Funny » camera http://sevenfloorsdown.com/geeks ...because computer engineers are people too. Tue, 15 May 2012 16:00:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Turn your camera phone into a microscope or spectrometer http://sevenfloorsdown.com/geeks/archives/1644 http://sevenfloorsdown.com/geeks/archives/1644#comments Sun, 13 Mar 2011 13:58:41 +0000 christian http://sevenfloorsdown.com/geeks/?p=1644 Found this via Wired. This just presents a whole world of opportunities for apps. I’ve been thinking about making scientific apps for lab use and stuff. My chemistry thesis was a gas chromatography application developed using LabView. Having installed Instant Heart Rate on my Android phone and reading about a smartphone app to monitor one’s vitals, the only thing really limiting smart phones’s scientific applications are sensors.

The article deals about using an iPhone. Of course, any camera should do. Or if one wants some on-equipment processing, any camera-equipped device with access to an SDK or API.

Original article via Wired

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I was canvassing for camera stuff one day…

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