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Post [gadgets] $300 DIY Street-View Camera (Car Not Included) - 10-02-2009, 04:36 PM

Using eight cheap webcams, a GPS receiver and open-source software, Roy D. Ragsdale built a rig that can do what Google?s Street-View cars do: take images of the world around it and stitch them together into panoramas. The difference? This version can be carried on your head and cost just $300 to make.







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