Ah yea, I shouldn't have linked to Threads (it was just the first result I found to see the full photo). I replaced the link with a better one.
al_borland 1 days ago [-]
Thank you. From the posted article, it took me to a YouTube video, which mentioned a Popular Science article[0], which I found looking at the history in BlueSky… yet none of that had the actual photo. After all that running around, it’s quite underwhelming. I suppose the headline and the process is better/more interesting than the picture, and they knew it.
That's... honestly kinda underwhelming. You can't even see any stripes, it's just a vague blob. I guess the contrast was just too much for the Gameboy camera?
hadlock 1 days ago [-]
It means a lot more if you held one of these in your hands new before you were old enough to drive
(or, in my case, read about it in nintendo power, but only saw it behind the glass case at Target)
voidUpdate 1 days ago [-]
I've used a gameboy camera recently. It took some lovely pictures once it was adjusted properly. I just suspect that there might have been problems with dynamic range etc that made it particularly difficult to take a picture of jupiter?
sublinear 1 days ago [-]
Sorry, but I had a game boy camera in 1998 and it was underwhelming back then too. I was in the third grade.
jdiff 1 days ago [-]
Yes, the lack of whelm in all cases is what makes it impressive that it worked at all in this case.
Calvin02 1 days ago [-]
Not to diminish his accomplishment, he attached the game boy camera to a 60inch telescope at Mount Wilson. This is a cool project but the quality of the photo is what you’d expect from a gameboy camera.
The headline seems to imply that he custom built a telescope for his gameboy.
canthonytucci 4 days ago [-]
Can I see the picture of Jupiter though? Seems like one of the 2 pictures this article would need
mmmlinux 4 days ago [-]
Yeah, surprising all this effort and no clean copy of the picture to be easily found. Pretty easy to get them off the GB camera now days.
greatgib 1 days ago [-]
Probably because it is a kind of autogenerated article betting it all on the clickbait title to generate ad dollars.
Having the colour of your links be very close to the default colour of links you've already clicked is an interesting style choice
stdatomic 1 days ago [-]
I don't know why I was expecting to be amazed by the photo.
RagnarD 1 days ago [-]
Would have been far more interesting to have an iPhone adapter, another very common device but with a worthwhile image sensor better justifying time on a massive telescope.
archi42 1 days ago [-]
It's a 100" telescope... from 1917. To summarize Wikipedia for you (my words, not a genai): While it was used by famous people like Hubble it isn't used for scientific work anymore. Some adaptics optics stuff happened in the 1990s, but I suppose that was just to test the system on a telescope that wasn't in active use anymore. In 2014 it "began its new life as the world's largest telescope dedicated to public use".
Just name the "guy" in the title, how hard is that? I hate this so much. Idea and execution is so rad, just credit him properly, Engadget pls...
realaccfromPL 1 days ago [-]
Musician and retro tech fan Chris Graue
jagged-chisel 1 days ago [-]
There's a headline character count budget!
zx8080 1 days ago [-]
Where is the photo?
WalterGR 1 days ago [-]
Read the other comments and you’ll find the answer you’re looking for.
pineapplepizza6 1 days ago [-]
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amelius 1 days ago [-]
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gus_massa 1 days ago [-]
Do you have a blog post about it? It may be an interesting DIY post in HN in spite it may seem trivial to you. (Remember to include a few photos.)
amelius 1 days ago [-]
There's not much to blog about. You just take the camera sensor and place it in the focal plane of the lens.
gus_massa 22 hours ago [-]
I took a few lab courses in the university (for Physics), it's never that easy.
How do you keep it in place? A wood mount? A 3D printed piece? A metal support may be an overkill. Does it need screws for alignment? I guess 3, but I'm not sure if they are necessary. Can I buy the sensor alone or I have to remove a lens? Do you have a strong opinion about sensors? Like one for beginners and one for intermediate level. Wires? I still have nightmares about BNC wires that magically stop working. How much light isolation? Do I have to paint everything in black? (While using a microscope in a completely dark room to take photos, someone opened the door and the light ruined one or two of the slides, we notice that a few days later.)
Each one here has a different set of expertise, so if you want to run the experiment and write a nice post with photos you can farm some karma. Otherwise, you can just comment that is also useful.
amelius 22 hours ago [-]
Even if you ignore all the issues you mentioned and physically mount the sensor with a bunch of blue tack in a dim environment you will be able to get a much better picture than the article. Next step would be 3d printing a case/mount. There really isn't much more to it.
PS: you can buy a sensor with a USB2 cable attached to it, which works flawlessly in Linux.
HPsquared 1 days ago [-]
Indeed, content performance is more important than camera performance here.
[replaced a Threads link for a better one]
F%%k the closed web.
[0] https://www.popsci.com/science/game-boy-camera-jupiter/
(or, in my case, read about it in nintendo power, but only saw it behind the glass case at Target)
The headline seems to imply that he custom built a telescope for his gameboy.
So I'd say it's a good use as any ;-)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Wilson_Observatory#100-i...
How do you keep it in place? A wood mount? A 3D printed piece? A metal support may be an overkill. Does it need screws for alignment? I guess 3, but I'm not sure if they are necessary. Can I buy the sensor alone or I have to remove a lens? Do you have a strong opinion about sensors? Like one for beginners and one for intermediate level. Wires? I still have nightmares about BNC wires that magically stop working. How much light isolation? Do I have to paint everything in black? (While using a microscope in a completely dark room to take photos, someone opened the door and the light ruined one or two of the slides, we notice that a few days later.)
Each one here has a different set of expertise, so if you want to run the experiment and write a nice post with photos you can farm some karma. Otherwise, you can just comment that is also useful.
PS: you can buy a sensor with a USB2 cable attached to it, which works flawlessly in Linux.