This is a really cool project from my former PhD lab. It's a camera kit that teaches kids how cameras work by letting them assemble one themselves. The website [1] includes a lot of educational material describing how and why each component works, along with interactive animations.
The camera itself is also interesting in that it contains a few different "computational imaging" lens-systems within: normal, wide-angle, and stereo, "all-in-one". See [2] for a description of what computational imaging means in general.
I'm happy to try to answer any questions (this wasn't my project, but I did play around with one).
The camera itself is also interesting in that it contains a few different "computational imaging" lens-systems within: normal, wide-angle, and stereo, "all-in-one". See [2] for a description of what computational imaging means in general.
I'm happy to try to answer any questions (this wasn't my project, but I did play around with one).
[1] http://www.bigshotcamera.com/experience
[2] http://www.cs.columbia.edu/CAVE/projects/what_is/