To Learn How Your Camera Works, Try Building One

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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.

Source: http://www.npr.org/2013/11/01/242356995/to-learn-how-your-camera-works-try-building-one?ft=1&f=1019
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