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Why you’d want to do this, I have no idea. But if you’ve got time to burn, a “geek project itch” you want to scratch and an old flatbed scanner just laying around and probably not worth the effort to put up for sale on eBay, then check out these detailed instructions that’ll show you how to build a digital camera from your flatbed scanner.

If you do build one, we’d be curious to see the images you capture with it!

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