The PinholePainter Camera is a first semester project by Amanda Bernsohn, Chris Cerrito and Eduardo Lytton for Introduction to Physical Computing and Introduction to Computational Media at ITP. The hardware and software are currently under development.

We began with a discussion about what we like and appreciate about analog photography, as well as the advantages of digital photography. We were all in agreement that pursuing a project that offered a combination and balance between the two was worth some attention. Our goal was to promote interactive picture taking through a unique interface that would not only provide enjoyment and interesting images, but also teach the user a little about photography.

We decided to create a digital pinhole camera that uses a ccd made up of 16 photocells. The image is projected through the pinhole, inverted, and on to the image plane. The user moves the patch of photocells along the image plane to record light value readings. These values are sent serially from the Arduino to Processing, and a grayscale image is composed, or "painted" in.