STEM Learning with the World’s Simplest Camera

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Sam Cornwell

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 extremely long time exposures capable of capturing the path of the sun. Sam joins us for this special video episode of Lab Out Loud to tell us how the Solarcan combines art and astronomy for the citizen scientist in all of us.

Links:

• Solarcan
• Solarcan Kickstarter page
• 10 MILLION SECOND shutter speed – Solarcan solargraphy camera from Matthew Vandeputte
• SolarCan featured on BBC Look North – 29 Jan 2019
• The Solarcan Matrix
• NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day about Solarcan

Featured image courtesy of Sam Cornwell and Solarcan

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