Our first project: a photo booth

This isn't going to by your typical old-fashioned photo booth.  This is going to save a history of all photos taken, upload them to a flickr group (join it), and be free to use.

Josh is doing the majority (okay, maybe all) of the heavy lifting on this one.  He describes what he did here.  We were initially inspired by the folks at Shine, a bar in SF that has a similar photo booth setup.  They were very open and helpful in explaining how they put theirs together.  In the end, we did ours slightly differently (we're not going to do photo strips, for example, and aren't going to brand the photos taken), but the spirit is the same.  More places should have this.

How it's going to work

We're going to install this in a closet near the staircase.  When you open the door, you'll be presented with a screen that displays one of the pictures that has previously been taken, and a menu to browse more, or to take a picture.  It's a touch screen so you just touch "take a picture" and it counts down from 5 and takes it.

It immediately uploads to the internet... which will add a bit of a risky element to the whole process.  You can take as many as you want for free.  At some point we're going to allow you to print them out, but not at first.  It's just a quirky experiment to see how it's going to be used.

When can you see it?

We hope for it to be fully functioning and in action on New Years Eve, when we'll be throwing a little party for our friends.  If you want to be invited, sign up here.