I played around with a small box, paper and scissors, only to realize that I am missing the required lighting equipement. My small lamps simply aren’t bright enough.

Sitting in the sun, sipping on my coffee, I came up with this micro light box. Actually it’s a tube. What would you need to build one?

• 1 x piece of A4 paper
• transparent tape
• sun light
• 30 seconds to acquire materials + 15 seconds to assemble the parts

Although the sun light is coming only from one direction the unwanted shadows are almost completely gone. This light box is only suitable for very small objets, an Arduino board, about 5*6 cm, is the largest you can put into it.

Not bad for this micro light box. Still a bit dark.

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