The pinhole camera made from a single LEGO BRICK: Device snaps tiny thumbnail-sized 'photos'
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A student has created a tiny working camera out of a Lego brick.
Graphic design student Ryan Howerter, 21, made a fully functional pinhole camera, which creates tiny photographic prints, housed in the space of the small toy block.
The Lego fan's tiny camera takes minuscule black and white photographs measuring 0.16 square inches (one square centimetre square).
The camera is seen here in Ryan Howerter's hand. The graphic design student created the working pinhole camera out of a single Lego brick
Mr Howerter, a student at Colorado State University, said: 'You can make a pinhole camera out of nearly anything.
'I love Lego - you can do so much with it.'
The Lego camera works by exposing a sheet of photographic paper to light from a tiny pinprick.
Light comes in the side and strikes the photographic film, creating an image.
The paper can then be developed in exactly the same way as a full-size photograph.
The camera, which can be held by a Lego figure, is made of a black two-by-two lego brick, a sheet of brass with a hole in the middle, and is sealed using black tape.
Mr Howerter said: 'The pictures are a little bit fuzzy but people are impressed by it.'
'The hardest part about building it is removing the central supporting column inside the brick - you have to use a dremel [tool] to get it out.
'I usually expose the pinhole for around ten seconds to get the images.'
Mr Howerter was inspired by a working pinhole camera made from a pine nut.
His Lego creation only took 20 minutes to build.
Here a Lego man is seen with the Lego camera and pictures taken with it. Ryan Howerter from Colorado State University made the tiny camera in just 20 minutes
'The pictures are a little bit fuzzy but people are impressed by it,' said Ryan Howerter. 'The hardest part about building it is removing the central supporting column inside the brick - you have to use a dremel [tool] to get it out. I usually expose the pinhole for around ten seconds to get the images'
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