As you may know: When developing black-and-white film, you periodically have to shake the tank for the chemistry to be effective, normally every 30 seconds. This is called agitation, and it’s quite boring.
I wanted to create a device which you can prop the film tank onto, which agitates the film according to a preset – continuous, 30 sec, 60 sec, etc – with a little LCD display or similar – which, when turned on, would print a random selection of Soviet propaganda phrases.
I wonder if it isn’t too much effort for a single pun, but I’m not sure it is.
Robert | 18-Mar-10 at 5:45 pm | Permalink
Yeah I was considering doing this with some old lego technics, like I did for etching circuit boards.
But with film, you’re also supposed to give it a sharp tap every time you’re finished agitating to dislodge any possible bubbles that have formed on the film. I found this a difficult mechanical problem to solve. Then I broke my developing tank so I stopped developing film anyway.
Simon | 18-Mar-10 at 6:03 pm | Permalink
I want to write a piece of software that optimizes access to optical media, and call it “earlybird”. Because it caches the WORM.