To Learn How Your Camera Works, Try Building One
Digital cameras are ubiquitous today—even $20 cell phones have them built in. But few people actually know how a digital camera works. Shree Nayar, a computer scientist at Columbia University, set out to change that with his Bigshot Do-It-Yourself Digital Camera kit, which gives tinkerers a view of a camera’s anatomy.
Shree Nayar is a computer science professor at Columbia University in New York, New York.