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.
From the MAKE Flickr pool Laptop stand modded for coolness [above, top-left] Toy control panel is an awesome gift [above, top-right] The speaker phone (no, not that speakerphone) The office crossbow [above, bottom-left] Humans, bees, wasps living together [above, bottom-right]
Here’s a great quilting tip sent to us by Rhonda of Joyce’s Daughter. Take a photo of your patchwork blocks before you start sewing so you can remember the order of your patches and rows.
Etharooni designed this wonderful intervalometer to help him take awesome photos with his camera. He writes: Entry-level Nikon DSLRs don’t have many built in features that the higher-end cameras do, like an interval timer, for instance. It’s an exceedingly useful feature. If you want to take star trails, time lapse, repetitive self-timer shooting, or whatever, […]
The folks at Ideo Labs celebrated the awesome hair of their intern, Alex, by modding a Diana plastic camera so that it adds his hair to whomever is photographed. They gave it to him as a going-away present. Modding a Toy Camera to an “Alex Cam” [Thanks, Dave!]
Here’s a fun project you can do during the family MAKEcation (or vacation, for that matter): create a chest-camera rig so you can spin your kids around and take photos of them in flight. (Maybe if you get them super dizzy, they’ll forget the fact that you’re not taking them off the family compound this […]
DAAP industrial design student Kyle A Koch designed and fabricated this useful flat pack copy stand for the iPhone. It will copy a standard letter-sized sheet with reasonable fidelity.
Introduction To LED Lighting
