Paper Camera | Kannada
Channel: Arvind Gupta
Date: 07/01/2016

In this Paper Camera as you pull it back a CLICK sound comes and the photograph is taken. Now remove the Photo and admire it. This toy is very popular with children. Take a square which is 15-cms on the edge. Fold its two diagonals – both in the same direction. Then fold both the midlines in the same direction. Then fold all the four corners of the paper to the center to make the First Envelope. Then upturn the model and once again fold all the four corners to the center to make the Second Envelope. Repeat this process once again. Upturn the model and once again fold all the four corners of the square to the center. This will be a really small envelope. Then open and press two opposite squares to make two rectangles. Finally open the other two opposite squares to make two standing triangles. Now pinch and bend the ends of the triangles. Then overlap the two triangles and interlock their ends. This is the LOCK of the camera. Once you pull the camera back this LOCK opens and makes a CLICK sound! See the lock mechanism once again. This is how this camera is operated. Pull the two ends back and it makes a CLICK sound. Then you can remove the hidden picture by opening the camera and surprise your friends.

This work is supported by IUCAA (www.iucaa.ernet.in) and TATA Trust (www.tata.com/aboutus/sub_index/Tata-trusts)

Credits:,Ashok Rupner, Manish Jain, Pradnya Pujari, Shivaji Mane, Jyoti Hiremath, Arvind Gupta, Vidula Mhaiskar TATA Trust: Education is one of the key focus areas for Tata Trusts, aiming towards enabling access of quality education to the underprivileged population in India. To facilitate quality in teaching and learning of Science education through workshops, capacity building and resource creation, Tata Trusts have been supporting Muktangan Vigyan Shodhika (MVS), IUCAA's Children’s Science Centre, since inception. To know more about other initiatives of Tata Trusts, please visit www.tatatrusts.org