Instead of throwing away the old, neglected scanner sitting in the garage, why not turn it into a cheap lightbox? James Wilson recently asked himself the same question, and he wound up getting some ...

[Kizo] repurposed a flatbed scanner to use as an exposure box for making printed circuit boards. Exposure time is controlled by an AVR ATtiny2313 microcontroller. The device is connected to a separate ...

If you have a bunch of old negatives that you'd like to get into your iPhoto or Picasa so you can process them and actually look at them once in a while. then you might want to try Andrew Lewis' cheap ...