[StavrosK]

Oh, yes, light painting is probably as old as the camera, but I think "painting" photorealistic images with a strip is different enough to count as an original idea.

I'm not very fussed about being the first anyway, it was just fun to think that I created something nobody else had before. Fun while it lasted, anyway :P

[faceplanted]

This has actually been being done for a decade at least, you can find instructions online for it, I had the same experience with just about every idea I had when I first joined my university maker space, not only had all my idea been done, half of them had been done specifically _by that makerspace_ just when they were picking fun projects to do off the internet.

The point is to make stuff and enjoy it, you're still an inventor. And the things you _do_ with your projects are half the fun, your photos are really fun and I wouldn't have thought of a lot of them.

[StavrosK]

Agreed, in the end I do it because it feels great to make things. I really love soldering and routing PCBs, for some reason, I should make more of those...