Saving family football footage with a Raspberry Pi and a 1928 projector
David Stein built a custom film scanner using a 1928 projector and a Raspberry Pi 5 to digitize decaying family football footage. The project significantly reduced the time and cost required to preserve fragile historical film reels.
Why it matters
This demonstrates the practical application of low-cost, high-performance computing in digital archival and historical preservation.
This project started when the maker, David Stein , was hunting for footage of his dad s high school football games. David s grandfather had captured some on Super 8 film, which David paid to have scanned, and his dad s high school had donated its 16mm game films to the Heinz History Center in Pittsburgh, PA, which he had transferred.
The article is a technical case study focused on DIY engineering and preservation.
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