Much later, in January 1961, Popular Science published instructions that leveraged the physics of the camera obscura to build a homemade coffee-can camera, combining unlikely staples with ...

Just make sure that the paper doesn’t have any ... A bigger pinhole turns your box into a camera obscura, allowing more light in and projecting an image of the objects around you.

“I immediately thought that maybe we could make some type of camera or something, and then I thought of a camera obscura, which has been around since Aristotle’s time—it’s a very old tool.” ...