The Best Part Of Lomo’s Latest Camera: Building It Yourself
14/06/2013
Why do you have to build the Lomo Konstruktor? Why do you add an egg to Betty Crocker cake mix? If you’re an engineer, (...)
Why do you have to build the Lomo Konstruktor? Why do you add an egg to Betty Crocker cake mix? If you’re an engineer, it’s an awesome time to be alive. You have 3-D printers, inexpensive microprocessors, and a boatload of SDKs to build things with. But if you’re an everyday person who doesn’t know coding and CAD, the whole world of gadget creation has probably been lost on you (just like it has been for me). The Lomography Konstruktor ($35) is a brilliant illusion in the maker era. It’s a 35mm toy camera, complete with swappable lenses, that you can build in about an hour or two. Simply snap out its parts from an injection-molded skeleton, then assemble them with some squeezing and screwing.Read Full Story