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My wife, Brenda, got me this stereoscope from an antique shop. They are pretty common. It didn't have any stereogram cards to look at or a holder for the cards. I had it for a while. Then this idea happened in my brain. I got an iRiver clix and thought, its small enough to fit on the stereoscope. Then I grabbed another clix, and made it.

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Here is what I started with: two clixes and the naked stereoscope.

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The clix plays video at 15 FPS. I couldn't stand testing feasiblility with non matching backgrounds, so now they match.

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I shot some widescreen 3D footage with two upper end consumer cameras. Trying to get them to act like eyes is a bit of a challenge. I plan on creating a special tripod to better shoot 3D video.

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I made some rough plans in my head and got to work. I eyeballed everything in this project (no rulers).

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Here is the above piece of metal finished being bent.

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I know they aren't very good directions, but just so you can see what I came up with, here are more pictures.

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The posts are removed from an old autotransfusion machine. I bet that they are available from your local hardware store.

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I soldered two thick brass wires through the back plate of the holster, so that a brass tab could wrap around to the front to help hold them in place.

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I had to file everything down around the clix holsters so they wouldn't get scratched.

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Here is the finished holster.

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Here is the finished product, Even though you can sorta see the pixels so close up it's still really sweet. I plan to have my sculpture portfolio on there so when I apply at art galleries they can see 3D slides or 3D video of kinetic sculptures!

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Comments:

Posted by natetrue 1 year ago ( 25-Dec-2006 02:39:56 )

That's kickin' rad! Any chance we can get you to make / publish an interesting 3d video?

Posted by corbin 1 year ago ( 25-Dec-2006 03:18:19 )

I have had this idea for quite sometime, except I've been trying to find a way to hook up the LCDs from mini camcorders and have them work like this along with two wireless mini cameras aligned just right mounted on an rc sumthing-or-other, but congrats on ur success mang! How much do those 'Clix' usually run ($)??

Posted by natetrue 1 year ago ( 25-Dec-2006 10:22:16 )

Looks like they go for $134 on Amazon (search for iriver clix. Kind of pricey.

I've never found a good way to hook up LCDs from miscellaneous electronics because they're always very difficult to drive. They all have different signal schemes, voltage levels, and timing that makes it difficult to put together.

For the realtime wireless 3d viewing, I would suggest looking at handheld color TVs with composite video inputs, along with 2.4ghz wireless color cameras with a selectable channel.

This comment was edited at 2006-12-25 10:27:03

Posted by jesse 1 year ago ( 25-Dec-2006 23:40:20 )

I got these CLixes for $100 each because I have a contact, but they were originally $200. As they become les and less new they ill get cheaper though. Im thinking of doing a 3D stopmotion.

Posted by ejkdreamer 1 year ago ( 27-Dec-2006 12:10:37 )

I've been doing the same thing for a while now using a Sony PSP and a vintage stereoscope. The cool thing about the PSP is that the video pairs will always be in sync, as they are side-by-side in a single mpeg4 file. Also, the psp will play back auto-slideshows of jpeg stereo pairs and stereocards. I love the juxtaposition of new tech with antique. Check out my setup (view with red/cyan glasses for 3D):
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Posted by jesse 1 year ago ( 27-Dec-2006 16:46:07 )

Dude thats beautiful! And the in sync aspect is something thats nice too althought its not hard to get the clixes in sync. Would you be interested in me posting the two halves of any future 3D videos I make in here for you to consume? Oh and I also love the combination of old and new tech! ...How do you hold your PSP on the rack?

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Posted by jesse 1 year ago ( 27-Dec-2006 16:53:17 )

Oh I made some Red/Cyan specs just to look at your picture (prefer stereoscope style)out of photolight gels. One weird thing is my mouse was over the part that sticks out the furthest, it was really odd because the pointer is further away than that part.

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Posted by jesse 1 year ago ( 27-Dec-2006 17:04:32 )

Well not specs really, I just held them.
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Posted by ejkdreamer 1 year ago ( 27-Dec-2006 20:09:10 )

Hey, you should make some giant glasses frames for those gels. I'm currently attaching the PSP to the base with velcro straps, as it seems the simplest temporary solution. Sometime I should get around to building a more permanent base. Stereoscopy is a hobby of mine, and in addition to the PSPscope, I've also hacked together a stereoscopic DV camera rig, portable passive-3D LCD monitor, modded an industrial head-mounted display for watching 3D movies, and assembled a PC-based playback system for both passive and active stereo viewing. Sometime I'll have to post pictures of everything. In the meantime, here's a side-by-side (stereoscope format) of the PSPscope.

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Posted by sirsmelly 1 year ago ( 27-Dec-2006 22:56:41 )

Jesse this thing is awesome.. but really the reason I'm typing in this little box it to tell you that picture of you in the pool is FREAKENNN awesome.. I don't know why but I love it, and I want to have a pool now. heh

Posted by natetrue 1 year ago ( 29-Dec-2006 09:56:59 )

Jesse,

We should make up a rig with mirrors that turns our HD video camera into a stereoscopic camera - as long as two parts of the video are stereoscopable I can make a script that can extract each half no matter where they are on the frame.

Posted by jesse 1 year ago ( 30-Dec-2006 00:49:37 )

AWESOME thread. I love the HUD mod and I would LOVE to see the other stuff ejkdreamer has created! OH an thanks for the stereograph of the PSP viewer. Sirsmelly...thankyou you should get a pool, just for photographs. NATE that HD idea is truly sweetness in the disguise of sweetness. I have first surface mirrors but am wonderign if we should look into prisms instead.