Chosen Project + Global Contexts


The idea that my partner and me have agreed on for our Tech Fair project is the pinhole cameras & tripods. The idea can be expanded on, and allows us a little bit of freedom to use our creativity and innovation to modify the models of the camera, as well as being a project that consists of two mini-projects (the camera and the tripod), meaning that it is enough work to serve two people while creating it. The idea can be tailored to suit our community as well as places worldwide, considering that it is beneficial to the environment – this allows us to link global contexts within our work, such as ‘Scientific and Technical Innovation’, seeing as pinhole cameras are a new, original variation of a form of technology that we already use today, as well as being an area yet to be more thouroughly explored by technology in the modern world. Another global context would be ‘Globalisation and Sustainability’, an idea that encompasses the eco-friendly, recyclable aspect of this project and how it helps the world become a more sustainable place. An idea that we plan on doing is to make two different models of cameras – one that is quite basic and showcases the essential features of a pinhole camera and one that is a more colourful, creative-looking pinhole camera to which we have added our modifications, to show the development of pinhole cameras and to highlight the improvements we have made to an already-existing model. Two of the templates that we are considering using for the two cameras are: the Rubikon pinhole, made by the Hubero Kororo group – a model that is quite minimalistic and has the hand-operated shutter of a traditional pinhole camera – and the Peyote pinhole, made by the Corbis Readymech group – an imagiantive, vibrant model that has more potential to be improved on, and a template that looks much more developed than the Rubikon, in order to clearly display the comparison between the two models.



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