Re:Show HN: Ledonardo, my light painting hardware project
by StavrosK on Wednesday October 02, 2019 @08:55AM
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Oh, yes, light painting is probably as old as the camera, but I think "painting" photorealistic images with a strip is different enough to count as an original idea.
I'm not very fussed about being the first anyway, it was just fun to think that I created something nobody else had before. Fun while it lasted, anyway :P
Re:Show HN: Ledonardo, my light painting hardware project
by faceplanted on Wednesday October 02, 2019 @09:33AM
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This has actually been being done for a decade at least, you can find instructions online for it, I had the same experience with just about every idea I had when I first joined my university maker space, not only had all my idea been done, half of them had been done specifically _by that makerspace_ just when they were picking fun projects to do off the internet.
The point is to make stuff and enjoy it, you're still an inventor. And the things you _do_ with your projects are half the fun, your photos are really fun and I wouldn't have thought of a lot of them.
In the end though it doesn't matter that you aren't original, it matters that you did it and possibly added something new (spending time thinking about resolution, color quality, etc).