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    Daily Blog 01/07

    Did you know that floppy disks make great visible light filters ? Neither did I !
    A perfect fit for my project, isn't it ? It's cheap, easy to open, and nobody will be mad at me for breaking them because it's obsolete. The real obstacle is to find one though.

    After an hour long run all across campus, I finally stopped by the IT building, that gave me a good dozen of floppy disks even if I needed two, thank you Mr. Bernstein. The floppy disk in hand, I just had to take it apart and cut a little part, and then put it in front of the camera. And it works ! Well, everything is black, but I took apart the laser keyboard one last time to steal the near infrared laser, put the diffraction crystal (yes, it sounds so sci-fi) in front of the laser, and Ta-da ! It works ! I then tried to use the app with it, and I made an actual working keyboard out of the table I was working on. Not very accurate, but it's amazing how easy things appear to be now.



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