For the last five years or so, I've been wanted to digitize our family's collection of 8mm films. I've seen just about all the websites that talk about doing just that. Most of the people that participate mostly say either project the movie and record it, which was ok about a decade ago when I did it for VHS, or sending them off to a professional business, which in my case would be very expensive.
I've seen very inventive people using legos and flatbed scanners with software that they used themselves. Great results, but I don't have all the space necessary for such a setup (not to mention the price of Legos.)
But I kept thinking that there ought to be a way to do it with the technology I have. What I've found is two ideas I'm going to combine into one. The first is an instructable that modifies a desklamp arm to attach a webcam:
http://www.instructables.com/id/Low-cost-document-camera-visualiser/
And one instructable for modifying a webcam to see through a microscope.
