iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Daniel Cuthbert @dcuthbert.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

At this point, I feel im on a mission to save old cameras looking sad Oh hello my new German friend

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Daniel Cuthbert @dcuthbert.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

I love it. Honestly such a solid colour we don’t see much anymore

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Daniel Cuthbert @dcuthbert.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Orange. We don’t have enough colour in the world today and whoooah boy does my Seiko 6106-7107 have that and is a legendary piece. She’s just turned 56 (march 1970) and the rotating internal bezel wins it for me. I have a problem with vintage Seiko

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Daniel Cuthbert @dcuthbert.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

I’m truly loving seeing so many in the car scene embracing AI to help them mod/tweak/hack and improve their modern and classic cars. From playing with esp32’s to learning CAD/PCB designs and how to interact with older ECUs. Now creativity is the name of the game with no hardware/tech gatekeeping

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Daniel Cuthbert @dcuthbert.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Sadly, we humans are too much of a rich source of valuable data points for people to use and abuse and capitalise on. I can see a future where we do need a firewall that helps us limit what is collected from both cars and all these other trackers.

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Daniel Cuthbert @dcuthbert.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

From the “no shit, didn’t see this coming” department: District Judge Jeremy Daniel in Chicago said drivers in the proposed class action ⁠can try to prove that Allstate violated the Federal Wiretap Act by monitoring their travel www.reuters.com/legal/govern....

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Allstate must face privacy lawsuit over cellphone tracking of drivers

Allstate must ‌face a privacy lawsuit accusing the home and auto insurer of illegally tracking drivers through their cellphones without consent, using their data to raise premiums or deny coverage, an...

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Daniel Cuthbert @dcuthbert.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

If you’ve ever been in east London (Lower Clapton rd innit) and like film, you’ve probably gone past Ümits shop Well, this documentary just has me gushing. Get him and Tarantino to meet Amazing www.kickstarter.com/projects/tlp...

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The Last Picture Shop - Feature Documentary

A legendary London projectionist’s quest to find Quentin Tarantino and ask for his help to save the UK’s last film shop

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

oil prices are about to make polyester a noble fiber

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Jeff Moss @thedarktangent.defcon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/03/2026

RIP FX - You are a legend

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Daniel Cuthbert @dcuthbert.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

You know when you wife is a keeper when she sends you love notes like

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Daniel Cuthbert @dcuthbert.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

It does and yeah I mean you know I mapped out the various interesting things on it already. However this is for the kids, so I have to try and be an adult to make sure it works so they can take pictures and photography first.

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Daniel Cuthbert @dcuthbert.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

I’ve reached that stage in my life where I’m now doing camera repairs for turn of the century digital cameras and slightly older

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Daniel Cuthbert @dcuthbert.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Amazing, do you have any pictures of it?

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Daniel Cuthbert @dcuthbert.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Glad you are enjoying them. If there’s an appetite, I have plenty more quirky cameras to tell the story about.

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Daniel Cuthbert @dcuthbert.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

It was a good idea, and you could see how they were experimenting with so many different formats at the time. Next up will be a 110 review too ;)

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Daniel Cuthbert @dcuthbert.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

By 1988, production of most disc cameras ceased. Kodak officially stopped making the film in 1999. Great looking camera with futuristic tech and ideas, let down by poor film.

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Daniel Cuthbert @dcuthbert.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

It did sell and in the first few years, sold over 8 million disc cameras. People loved the "gadget" feel. However, that negative size was the killer: a standard 4x6 print was a 15x enlargement and yes, people did print their images back then

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Daniel Cuthbert @dcuthbert.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

However, they also introduced technological obsolescence in a way by soldering the lithium batteries directly to the main board. No user-serviceable parts inside. Today, most Disc-7s are "bricked" unless you open them up and replace them with a modern 6v option

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Daniel Cuthbert @dcuthbert.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

The precision was so high that Minolta’s aspheric glass technology actually paved the way for the rapid spread of CD Players. If it weren't for the tech developed for these odd little cameras, your 1984 portable Sony Discman might never have worked.

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Daniel Cuthbert @dcuthbert.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

To get this level of accuracy, a machining tool that used NASA’s machining technology for aircraft components was introduced to fabricate a mold.

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Daniel Cuthbert @dcuthbert.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Now back to the Disc-7, which again was out of this world. The Disc-7 featured an all-glass 4-element lens, including a mass-produced aspheric glass element. A huge achievement for the early 1980s

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Daniel Cuthbert @dcuthbert.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

But, it had a cool safety feature in that unlike 35mm rolls, if you accidentally opened the back of the camera, you only ruined the one frame currently exposed to the window, not the whole disc.

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Daniel Cuthbert @dcuthbert.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

These negatives were tiny, a minuscule 8x10mm. For comparison, 35mm film is 24x36mm! Because of this, Kodak needed to develop T-Grain (Tabular Grain) film specifically for this format to keep image quality sharp.

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Daniel Cuthbert @dcuthbert.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Kodak launched Disc Film in 1982 to save the "point-and-shoot" market. Each disc was 65mm in diameter and held 15 exposures

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Daniel Cuthbert @dcuthbert.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

it’s a time capsule of 1980s "gadget-ism" that predicted the future of social media while being trapped in one of the most doomed film formats ever created Disc Film

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Daniel Cuthbert @dcuthbert.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

But its real trick? It was the world's first dedicated selfie machine. It came with a telescopic "arm" or handle that doubled as a tripod/grip, making it the first dedicated "selfie" kit in history thanks to its circular convex mirror on the front

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Daniel Cuthbert @dcuthbert.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

1983 was the year Matthew Broderick nearly sparked World War III in WarGames. While he was busy hacking into WOPR, Minolta was launching a piece of hardware that looked like it belonged on a NORAD control panel: The Disc-7

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Daniel Cuthbert @dcuthbert.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Shall We Play A Game... Of Selfies? Those who know me, know that my obsession with War Games is something else, but I also have a slight issue with older cameras and tech from the same period.

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Daniel Cuthbert @dcuthbert.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

The last few years has been brutal personally trying to balance research, kids, football and the desire to go and create photographs and longer bodies of work. Here’s hoping this year I smash that photographers block hard.

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Daniel Cuthbert @dcuthbert.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Sunday mornings with a good coffee and a brilliant discussion with Jason Lee, who’s not only a 90s skate legend and actor but also now a phenomenal photographer youtu.be/I2bkzgrC9Ac?...

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A Conversation with Jason Lee & Tim Carpenter | Democratic Vistas

YouTube video by Bryan Birks

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Daniel Cuthbert @dcuthbert.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Honestly I love rootkit. Building a light that can see hidden radio waves youtu.be/moBCOEiqiPs?... Great piece on the idea, design and actual implementation

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I built a light that can see radio waves

YouTube video by Rootkid

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Daniel Cuthbert @dcuthbert.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

A glimpse of the future of bug reports from our fav swede, Daniel of cURL gist.github.com/bagder/07f7581… These should be studied at universities teaching CS

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Daniel Cuthbert @dcuthbert.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

F91w is an amazing watch still as is the calculator. Get one

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Daniel Cuthbert @dcuthbert.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Yeah, overall, the vibe is actually very cool. Great little idea, my mind is racing about what electronics and components they’ll be using, just a sweet little project.

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Daniel Cuthbert @dcuthbert.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

It’s pretty intriguing, isn’t it?

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Daniel Cuthbert @dcuthbert.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

I like watches I like photography I like light meters I like electronics I like Hmmmm, oh hello www.increment-labs.com

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Daniel Cuthbert @dcuthbert.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

UNIX nerds rejoice, Uni of Utah managed to find version 4 of UNIX youtu.be/m-3RJaKcw_4?... Why is this cool? Well this is the 1st version written in C. Had a letter from Ken Thompson too, we thought version 5 was the oldest surviving copy Oh and it’s 2mb in size!

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UNIX v4 program found cleaning out an office at the University of Utah

YouTube video by KUTV 2 News Salt Lake City

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Daniel Cuthbert @dcuthbert.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Do it!!! I love my iPod classic

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Daniel Cuthbert @dcuthbert.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Great lightning talk at CCC on reverse engineering an iPod nano on a shoestring budget. Delayering PCBs using sandpaper and patience. Oh and decapping the SoC too, coz why not? youtu.be/FKHL1yyOKJc?...

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39C3 - iPod Nano Reverse Engineering

YouTube video by hug0

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Daniel Cuthbert @dcuthbert.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

If you are a hardware nerd like me who fancies a good Sunday rabbit hole with a 25-year old CNC machine and dodgy circuit boards… Well my friend, look no further youtu.be/BuQZeiAugp4?... And no, it is totally a lie that I’m currently looking on Facebook marketplace for CNC’s. Nope totes wrong

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Bought a Broken CNC Lathe They Don’t Want Me to Fix

YouTube video by Watch Wes Work

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Daniel Cuthbert @dcuthbert.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

So so glad Digging the Greats is touching on the comeback of physical music and media: youtu.be/o9pclYwRQag?...

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The Great Cassette Comeback is Weirder Than You Think (Mixtape Ep 1)

YouTube video by Digging The Greats

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Daniel Cuthbert @dcuthbert.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Anyone who’s tried to capture FaceID and the scanning that happens on your iPhone, will resonate with this video Great to see Associated Press do this piece on capturing surveillance tech youtu.be/D1tyEUq2u-E?...

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How AP photographers capture infrared technology used in surveillance

YouTube video by Associated Press

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