Camera Meets Speedometer, Travel Across Country Together

BluKnight writes "This guy hacked his camera to his speedometer, and ended up taking a picture EVERY MILE during a trip across the US. Kodak has the results (Flash in use!) of this venture. For my next hack, I'm going to interface to my digital camera to take a picture every time I blink -- I'll never miss what I'm seeing again!" The best part is the fact that he stopped every 36 miles to swap film rolls. Sad thing is, I understand this. (I still love film) The interactive map is -really- well done, but requires flash...

I can hear them now...

[Anonymous Coward]

Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet?

Re:speedometer?

[Anonymous Coward]

Even worse, I _did_ read it as odometer. And all I could see in my mind was a camera actually focused on the odometer -- ie. the pictures would just show:
0000001
0000002
0000003
...
Must. Leave. Work. Now. Going. Crazy.

Re:speedometer?

[Anonymous Coward]

have you ever tried to do simple math?

I always wondered...

[tswinzig]

The best part is the fact that he stopped every 36 miles to swap film rolls.

So that's who's still buying film.

Re:speedometer?

[czardonic]

Not to pick nits, but it would have been much clearer if this had read odometer instead of speedometer.

Totally. I had no idea what the story was about.

Kansas = flat

[Anonymous Coward]

Now I have proof for my assertion that there is nothing in Kansas. :-)

I did this sort of

[Brigadier]

When i drove from CT, CA in 3 days, i took rolls of picture while driving of, landmarks, and pictures of speedlimit signs, with my speedometer in the frame. one shot in colorado was a 75mph zone, and i was going 126mph, and there was a vw passat overtaking me.

Re:Clearly not geography majors...

[daeley]

What's the big deal? Everything between California and New York is pretty much the same thing. ;-D

Where's the speedometer?

[harlows_monkeys]

I misunderstood. I tought it meant he took a picture of the speedometer every mile. For some reason, I was strangely disappointed to find that this was not the case.

Ohio contains the mark of the beast?!?

[mjwise]

Went through these, fun to see that they went pretty close to my permanent home (huber heights, ohio -- east of vandalia, ohio on the map) and I think the closest picture to my home is #666! Huber Heights, Ohio the mark of the beast indeed. Well, we did have a kenny rogers roasters restaurant for a while.....yech.

And for once I'm glad to see an application of flash that is interactive, well-designed, doesn't attempt to cause epileptic seizures AND doesn't try to sell me something.