Blade Runner 3-D printed binoculars (1 Viewer)

Steve C

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• Oct 14, 2017

• #1

http://www.instructables.com/id/Blade-Runner-Binoculars/

This showed up a few minutes ago on my Google News feed. Make your own! Binoculars may be stretching the term a bit. I have no plans for a review

 

Last edited: Oct 14, 2017

Troubador

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• Oct 15, 2017

• #2

Widen the box a bit and you could have a lens pointing behind you too for that totally wide angle 360 degree field of view. That should really excite those that like to 'let their eyes roam from edge to edge'.

Lee

 

Steve C

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• Oct 15, 2017

• #3

The ingenuous could likely somehow incorporate a 360* camera for the ultimate wide angle experience.

 

Troubador

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• Oct 15, 2017

• #4

Yep, huild it into a drone and it could hover in front of the user taking selfies from every angle. o

Lee

 

Loud Green Man

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• Oct 15, 2017

• #5

So a printable 8x56 Noctovid with silky-smooth and free of slop focusing is only a matter of months away??

And in olive!

LGM

 

Steve C

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• Oct 15, 2017

• #6

Loud Green Man said:

So a printable 8x56 Noctovid with silky-smooth and free of slop focusing is only a matter of months away??

And in olive!

LGM

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LGM,

I don't know about months, but it seems the the way 3-D printing is advancing who knows if one day there will be a 3-D printed binocular? The first attempts are very likely to be crude and rudimentary as in the example in the link. Maybe components of various sorts first. 3-D printing or not I don't think there will ever be a slop free focus. That definition just varies too much.

 

NDhunter

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• Oct 17, 2017

• #7

Steve:

A slop free focuser is easy. Think Nikon......Nikon.......

Jerry

 

Steve C

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• Oct 18, 2017

• #8

NDhunter said:

Steve:

A slop free focuser is easy. Think Nikon......Nikon.......

Jerry

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By your definition and preference. However yours is yours and not somebody else's. I see some people who seem not to notice and others who seem to imagine it exists...just because it must be there. Not everyone certainly, but there is a certain subjective definition that defies description. By the way Maven focusers are better than Nikon...