The mini retro Kodak Kiosk [Source: YouTube]
This week’s selection is the Mini Retro Kodak Photo Kiosk by snapiness.
Photography YouTuber snapiness owns an ancient real-life Kodak photo kiosk. This device would often be seen in retail locations and provided a few useful functions, including making copies of an existing photo; performing simple photo editing and enhancements; printing from a digital image source.
Today these functions seem a bit weird, as we’re all equipped with powerful image tools in our pockets or purses. But back then there were no smartphones, no image software, no cloud storage, no online print services. To get prints you would have to go to a printing company or use one of these kiosks.
So who would want to use one of them today? Retro photography fans, of course. One of them is snapiness, who regularly posts videos on photography, especially equipment. He actually owns one of these kiosks, but as you’ll see in the video it was too large.
Snapiness believed the kiosk design could be made a lot smaller, and undertook a project to do so. Using an Elegoo Centauri Carbon 2 multicolor 3D printer, he was able to replicate the structure of the kiosk easily with 3D printed parts.
For the innards of the system, he found a photo printer, processor, and screen and installed them into the kiosk frame.
At the conclusion, he created a miniature Kodak photo kiosk — and one that actually works!
Unfortunately, snapiness did not post the files or instructions for building this kiosk 3D print yourself, so you’ll have to be satisfied with admiring the ingenuity of his project.
