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OLPC XO-1 Clip-on sports viewfinder made of LEGO bricks

The OLPC XO-1 still / video camera only faces in the same direction as the screen. When the camera and screen are turned to face the camera subject, you can press the "O" game button to take a picture. Because it's hard to frame up the shot without a viewfinder, I made one out of seven standard LEGO bricks that slips into the USB port.

Here's a listing of various camera periscope designs on the OLPC wiki
wiki.laptop.org/go/Peripherals/Camera_Ac cessories

OLPC Learning Club DC
www.olpclearningclub.org

OLPC News Forums - Hacks
olpcnews.com/forum/index.php?board=9.0

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items are from between 25 Dec 2007 & 25 May 2008.

OLPC XO-1 Clip-on sports viewfinder made of LEGO bricks
LEGO brick clip-on sports viewfinder front view
LEGO brick clip-on sports viewfinder rear view
OLPC XO-1 Clip-on sports viewfinder made of LEGO bricks
OLPC XO-1 Clip-on sports viewfinder made of LEGO bricks
LEGO brick clip-on viewfinder
LEGO brick clip-on viewfinder
Seven basic LEGO bricks
2x2 brick on another held by bench vise; area to grind away marked
Grinding away the base of the 2x2 brick
Grinding away the base of the 2x2 brick
Final sanding
Forming the tab that goes into the USB port
The nearly finished modded 2x2 brick
OLPC XO Clip-on sports viewfinder made of LEGO bricks
Prototype clip-on sports viewfinders for the OLPC XO
LEGO brick clip-on sports viewfinder
Phil Carrizzi's riff on my LEGO viewfinder
Carrizzi - Lee XOView 1.1 Viewfinder
First light through my alpha XO laptop camera periscope
A batch of XOView viewfinders arrived today!
Walter tries out his XOView camera viewfinder on the XO laptop
XOView on sale at XOExplosion.com
Close-up of the FDM pattern in the XOView camera viewfinder accessory

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