The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for creating and editing digital photos and videos, as well as how to make your own still and video cameras.
Lucky for those of us left behind, the fine folks at Maker Faire have been tagging their pictures and adding them to the MAKE Flickr pool. I see steam, lights, robots, festive Faire goers and more. If you aren’t able to make it to San Mateo this weekend, you can live vicariously through our fellow makers on site.
Michael Zheng of PetaPixel credits these beautiful photographs to one Duncan Meeder, whose personal web presence, if it exists, escapes my Googling. This example is identified as a Leica Tri-Elmar-M 28-35-50mm.
Last weekend I had the chance to visit the new office space of M Booth, a public relations agency in New York City. To decorate an otherwise drab wall, they magnetized it and covered it Polaroid-style instant photo prints, attaching each photo to the wall with a rare earth magnet. In order to get these […]
Searching for a way to enlarge some 8″x10″ prints without going digital, photographer (and close friend) Darren Samuelson decided to forego using an enlarger and instead built a gigantic ultra-large format camera capable of taking pictures on 14″x36″ X-Ray film. Taking over six months to complete, when fully extended the enormous hand-made bellows camera is […]
With high-definition television becoming increasingly widespread, many people are tossing their old NTSC or PAL video equipment to the curb. But as makers, we can reclaim this old equipment for our own projects. Enter The Video Experimenter. This Arduino shield by Nootropic Design lets you program your Arduino microcontroller to manipulate and analyze NTSC or […]
Check out our favorite shots from the MAKE Flickr pool for last week! Featured is “Flame Tube – Sine Wave 2” from nitdoggx.
This week in the CRAFT Flickr pool we saw, Table In’s and Odds, by woundupladybug, Camera Pillow Boxes, by b-a-boop, and Fantasy cake contest, by Alicia.
