STEM Learning with the World's Simplest Camera

About this episode

Sam Cornwell discusses the Solarcan, a pinhole camera that captures the sun's path, blending art and astronomy.

Video version at: https://youtu.be/7zvYh4XvFVk In 2017, Sam Cornwell launched a successful Kickstarter campaign to make a pinhole camera called the Solarcan. Now a successful company with the same name, the Solarcan is a simple camera that takes extremely long time exposures capable of capturing the path of the sun. Sam joins us for this special video episode of Lab Out Loud to tell us how the Solarcan combines art and astronomy for the citizen scientist in all of us. Show notes at: https://laboutloud.com/2024/03/episode-280-solarcam

People in this episode

Hosts: Dale Basler, Brian Bartel

Guest: Sam Cornwell

Topics covered

• STEM education
• pinhole camera
• art and astronomy
• citizen science
• long exposure photography

Keywords

• Solarcan
• pinhole camera
• STEM learning
• long exposure
• citizen science

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Solarcan, Lab Out Loud

Places: 2017

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