![]() ![]() To achieve his dream, Tim bought the smallest thermal printer he could find (an LESHP model with built-in Bluetooth and support for USB and RS232). “The noise that thermal printers make when they spit out receipts reminds me of instant cameras and I’d always wanted to use one for that purpose,” he says. Not only does this make for cheaper photography – “instant film is hugely expensive: more than £1 per shot,” Tim explains – it retains the original premise thought up by scientist Edwin Land, who unveiled the first commercial instant camera back in 1948.įor Tim, however, it was a chance to finally put a long-held idea of his own into practice. This article first appeared in The MagPi 70 and was written by David Crookes ![]() Instead, Tim Jacobs has done away with film entirely, so rather than instantly output white-bordered glossy pictures as per the original, it prints the results on the kind of thermal paper typically used for receipts. With this amazing Pi-infused camera, there’s certainly no shaking like a Polaroid picture. ![]()
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