How I became gaming's most popular and anonymous photographer

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Kickstarter: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1699256938/the-vanamo-on...

Awesome. I'm in. As a guy who restores old consoles as a small hobby, having detailed photos of the interiors, parts and circuit boards available will be huge.

The kickstarter's only got about two days left. He's met his goal but personally I'd like to see this get even more support.

One of the best "advertorials" for a Kickstarter I've seen yet. Made total sense as the conclusion of the article. I backed.

This is a great example of what kickstarter should be for - funding things that 'it would be nice if someone did'. Except the actual kickstarter project and rewards aren't exactly what's being pitched. I just like the idea of funding someone to go ahead and take decent pictures to donate to wikipedia. Not sure I like the idea of the separate 'museum'.

What kind of a setup does one use to take a picture like the Playstation controller in the article?

Here you go - http://digital-photography-school.com/how-to-make-a-inexpens...

Tell me about a time you hacked something other than a computer system

Something like this is great. However, it leaves me wondering if it wouldn't be even better, if 3d scans couldn't also be made.

would be a serious stretch goal

That would require lots of new hardware, which presumably he doesn't yet have. Maybe someone else who has access to 3D scanning equipment would be able to do it in a few years.

Or maybe the people at SIGGRAPH will come up with a crazy new algorithm to reconstruct 3D models of game console from 2D photos. ;)

This is cool. The pictures are great looking. Takes me back to the intellivision days.

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