necessary work in progress, sorting my negatives from the old pergamine sleeves into PrintFile sleeves. All emulsion down, in numerical order, every sleeve gets a short headline w/ date, film and theme. #filmphotography #lighttable

Upcycling a Flat Bed Scanner

[Piffpaffpoltrie] had a 20-year-old Acer flatbed scanner that they just couldn't justify keeping. But it does seem a shame to throw away a working piece of gear. Instead, the old scanner became a light table. We'll admit, as projects go, it isn't the most technically sophisticated thing we've ever seen, but we do think it is a worthy way to upcycle something that would otherwise be filling up a landfill.

The scanner was old enough to have a CCFL light source inside. However, it was too small, so it came out along with many other components that may yet find use in another project. If you didn't know , scanners are good sources for small stepper motors, straight rods, and first-surface mirrors.

The only parts that survived the refit were the power supply (including the wall wart), the outer case, of course, and -- oddly -- a large controller board. You might wonder why a light table needs a controller board, and the answer is it doesn't. However, there's not much need for a 20-year-old scanner controller board, and reusing the board allowed the power switch and power socket to be exactly where they were supposed to be. The board is effectively just a mechanical mounting bracket at this point.

The new lighting is LED, and some white cardboard and foil finished up the build. Truthfully, all the scanner donated was a piece of glass, the enclosure, and the power supply. Still, it makes an attractive light table and we are always up for upcycling.

If you need something to do with the insides, how about building a camera? Or deck out your PCB lab.

#mischacks #flatbedscanner #lighttable #upcycle

DarkTable is a free open source photography app, which lets you organise, view and develop raw image files. (It's like a Libre alternative to Adobe LightRoom)

You can follow at:

➡️ @darktable

It's available for Linux, Mac, Windows and BSD from https://www.darktable.org

#DarkTable #Photography #Apps #Photos #Photo #LightTable #DarkRoom #FOSS #FLOSS #Libre #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #Adobe #LightRoom #AdobeLightRoom #Alternatives

Darktable is a free open source photography app which lets you organise, view and develop raw image files, like a libre alternative to Adobe Lightroom. You can follow their official account at:

➡️ @darktable

It's available for Linux, Mac and Windows from the official site at https://www.darktable.org

#DarkTable #Photography #Photos #lighttable #Apps #FOSS #FLOSS #Libre #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #Adobe #LightRoom #AdobeLightroom #Alternatives

@yisraeldov@mastodon.technology
I thought #LightTable development had been abandoned?
@cadadr@mastodon.sdf.org

@mdallastella Yeah! That video is partly what started me thinking about this.

However, I'd like to extend the idea even further. #lighttable does what I'm thinking for reading and modifying, but not quite for creating new code. The programmer still has to name things and put them in the "right" namespaces and packages.

I want a global namespace of functions, each one being named the hash of its implementation. Think #nix for functions instead of packages.

@philipwhite it's more or less what #LightTable tried to achieve:

https://youtu.be/H58-n7uldoU

#clojure #ide

#Clojure friends, what IDE are you using? I've stuck with #LightTable for a long time and still like it a lot, but it's not being maintained and is becoming increasingly broken.

Finally found a skin/theme combination which makes #LightTable usable for me: https://github.com/tonsky/alabaster-lighttable-skin

I don't like light-on-dark editing, which means that new- or new-ish IDEs and editors often don't have a lot of themes that suit me.