Year: 2007

Peephole fisheye lens

Peephole fisheye lens

Dave Nance used an ordinary door peephole fitted to a lens cap to produce some whimsical looking images like the one above. Depending on the optics used in the peephole (many are made of plastic) and whether you choose to use a tripod to compensate for the decreased amount of light, you can really end […]

First-Person View hobby site

First-Person View hobby site

In response to the virtual pilot video item we posted several weeks back, a reader sent a link to this site, a portal related to “video piloting in the newly growing and exciting hobby of First Person View (FPV or RPV) that has become popular with Radio Controlled airplanes, R/C helicopters, cars and boats.” Who […]

Mooninite-inspired LED projects

Carl Cartagena sent us links to a series of LED light-art pieces he did, inspired by the Adult Swim Mooninite signs that triggered terrorist hysteria in Boston earlier this year. I wish he hadn’t splashed a URL watermark across the middle of them. Really annoying. And looking at these time-lapse vids, with a clock showing […]