{"id":451,"date":"2010-01-31T02:33:37","date_gmt":"2010-01-30T17:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/31\/bigshot-camera-a-camera-for-kids-and-education\/"},"modified":"2010-01-31T02:33:37","modified_gmt":"2010-01-30T17:33:37","slug":"bigshot-camera-a-camera-for-kids-and-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/31\/bigshot-camera-a-camera-for-kids-and-education\/","title":{"rendered":"BigShot Camera: a camera for kids and education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"560\" height=\"340\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/j_49SV3lU_Y&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/j_49SV3lU_Y&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"floatleft\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.columbia.edu\/record\/1763\"><br \/>\nCoverage from Columbia University&#8217;s &#8220;The Record&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p\/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/gadgetlab\/2009\/11\/bigshot-kit-camera-like-crack-for-kids\/\"><br \/>\nCoverage from Wired Magazine<\/a><\/p>\n<p\/>\n<\/div>\n<p>\nComputer Science <a href=\"http:\/\/www1.cs.columbia.edu\/~nayar\/\">Professor Shree Nayar<\/a> at Columbia University has a pretty cool project in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bigshotcamera.org\/\">BigShot Camera<\/a>.  It is a digital camera designed to teach kids about optics and electricity and all sorts of other things.  I think it looks really fun.  They include a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bigshotcamera.org\/sections\/learn\/power\/index.html\">power generation explanation<\/a> that is exemplified by a hand crank that you can use to charge the camera up.  It also has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bigshotcamera.org\/sections\/learn\/wheel\/index.html\">three different lenses<\/a> that you can use to change the types of images the camera takes.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI think this is a really fun way to introduce kids (even high school students and college students&hellip;) science.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nToo bad they aren&#8217;t available for sale.  They would make absolutely great toys.  I should also note that Professor Nayar is a really great guy; when I was a grad student in Computer Science at Columbia University I had really good interaction and experiences with the faculty there.  So I&#8217;m probably biased (don&#8217;t bloggers have to disclose their biases now?) and just wanted to write something up quickly when I saw this project in the recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.columbiamagazine.com\/\">Columbia Magazine<\/a> that I received.  It also had a cool piece about the new <a href=\"http:\/\/neighbors.columbia.edu\/construction\/current\/Northwest_Science_Building\/index.html\">Northwest Science Building<\/a> that I really wish was around when I was there!\n<\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"all\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coverage from Columbia University&#8217;s &#8220;The Record&#8221; Coverage from Wired Magazine Computer Science Professor Shree Nayar at Columbia University has a pretty cool project in the BigShot Camera. It is a digital camera designed to teach kids about optics and electricity and all sorts of other things. I think it looks really fun. They include a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}