Sony Mavica FD-83 Floppy Disk Camera Teardown -- The EIectronics Inside 33

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Most of us probably look back on pocket digital camera as a thing of the past. Maybe even remembering film and APS cameras. But who remembers their good old floppy disk camera?

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a531016 over 4 years ago in reply to DAB +2

It may have been a lower quality picture than a good 35mm, but was it worse than a 35mm scanned (by a 1990 scanner)? Excusing the random and uninteresting subject matter of my kitchen table and wall paper…
a531016 over 4 years ago in reply to shabaz +2

Thats awesome! I insist that I won't give my son any new tech till he can learn to appreciate how good it is now... He'll start with a game boy, walkman, and BBC Micro...
airbornesurfer over 4 years ago +1

My high school had one (ONE!) of these and I thought it was the most amazing thing! The yearbook staff used it, and it produced photos decent enough for publication. I lusted after one for a long time…

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hifromkatie over 4 years ago

This reminded me of a book I bought years ago (~2006) called more electronic gadgets for the evil genius. One of the ideas was to hide a capacitor in a tennis ball and add an couple conductive tape pads to each side. Charge it up and throw it to someone!
Had a little comment saying a large capacitor would make a bigger shock, but no real warning!
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a531016 over 4 years ago in reply to hifromkatie

OK, first off, that book sounds AMAZING... I'll have to source a copy!

I guess it's fine if you catch it in one hand, but if you catch it in 2 and it flows across your heart...
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