bigshot kit camera
Sunday, February 28th, 2010
Big Shot Camera for the little ones! - Do it for yourself and learn!
Big Shot Camera for the little ones! - Do it for yourself and learn!
Digital Camera Columbia Professor invention teaches complex concepts to the world's children.
Professor Shree Nayar Columbia University are mixed technology, innovation and art in a new digital camera designed to teach science to children worldwide. The camera, called Bigshot, it comes as a kit of parts that children as young as eight years old can assemble themselves. In the process, They learn basic concepts of physics and engineering. Free, after school programs for children to assemble and use the cameras are being planned now in New York.
Although the camera is easy to assemble, which offers the most sophisticated technology, which includes an LED flash and three lenses: standard, panoramic and 3-D. His color palette is inspired by M & M candies, a hand crankprovides power, even when there are no batteries, and a transparent rear panel shows the camera internal functioning. (Click here to view a video <http://news.columbia.edu/global/1765> an interview with Nayar and children to use the camera.)
Nayar, worked with a group of engineering students, led by Krishnan Guru, An Tran and Brian Smith, to create a website, target = "_blank"> bigshotcamera.org, walking children, teachers and parents through the assembly process. It uses flash animation to explain complex concepts like how a camera measures the light and converts it into a digital image. The site will eventually serve as a kind of Flickr for children, allowing photographers young people around the world to share their photos.
"The idea was not to create a device that was a cheap toy," says Nayar. "The idea was to create something that could be used as a platform for education in many societies. "
Nayar, TC Chang Professor of Computer Science and Chairman of that service in Columbia Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science Bigshot worked for two years. The project is an extension of his work as director of Computer Vision Lab School, where he has experience in high-sensitivity cameras. Among his inventions is the Omnicam, a video camera that shoots 360 images without a degree, and technology - developed recently in collaboration with Sony - which extends the range of brightness and color cameras can capture.
But as the father of two young children, he wanted his work has an impact beyond the high-tech sector in a more humane level. He was inspired by the 2005 Oscar-winning documentary Born Into Brothels <target = "_blank"> http://www.kids-with-cameras.org/bornintobrothels/>, which shows the lives of children growing up in Calcutta's red light district-light. The film director, British photographer Zana Briski gave cameras to 35 mm film eight children and noted that chambers of transforming their lives.
"The movie reaffirmed something I've long believed that esque the camera as a piece of technology, has a special place in society, "said Nayar, who grew up in New Delhi." It allows us expressourselves and communicate with each other in a very powerful ".
With the Bigshot, Nayar wants not only empower children and encourage their creative vision, but also to get excited about science. Each building block of the camera is designed to teach a basic concept in physics: Why the light bends as it passes through a transparent object, how mechanical energy is transformed into electricity, as an art
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"In modern society, we use the technology without understanding," says Lisbeth Uribe, a science teacher at Columbia School, a private elementary school in New York. "I love that [Nayar] has built a sophisticated and advanced technology in this camera, but made it so accessible and transparent. It is a great educational tool.
Nayar would launch the camera, now in prototype form at international level, with many being donated to schools scarce resources in the United States and abroad. Soon begin looking for a partner in the forums - a company or nonprofit - to help put Bigshot production.
Meanwhile, Nayar, Krishnan, Tran and Smith have tested the camera with children around the world. During the summer, Krishnan and Tran took several prototypes to Bigshot their places of origin: Bangalore, India, and Vung Tau, Viet Nam, respectively. In addition to the School of Columbia, Nayar also brought the camera to Mott Hall School, a public school in Harlem. Each scientist spent a morning teaching of several small groups of children how to collect the cameras after lunch, their charges were to take pictures. The children responded with enthusiasm.
"They were willing to buy the camera there and then," Krishnan says. "You offered me 10,000 rupees ($ 200)." More importantly, evidence that Nayar and his team gave him two days later showed that the students had kept
Bigshot concepts are expected to teach.
"Bigshot helped me make use of science I learned in school," said Hong Linh, 14, a student who tried the camera in the Vietnamese Nguyen An Ninh High School.
Eveangelista Muheto, 10, a student at Columbia College, said shewas nervous at first about building a camera from the beginning. But after the lesson, she was proud of his achievements. "I realized everyone realized I had a camera, "he says." I thought the camera wasreally, great, especially the three lenses, but was to help even coolerto build it. "
Nayar is now rolling out regularly, every two weeks after school program for children throughout New York City. To him, the best part of this experience has been looking at photos of children.
"I am addicted to the photos and I can not get enough of them," he says. " The fact that some children were using a camera for the first time and were able to present what they thought was important and so beautiful capturethat time was really remarkable. "
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