Make your own ring flash unit
This how-to is in Hungarian, but the pictures pretty much tell you what you need to know. How to make a DIY ring flash
Photography & Video
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.
How-To: Create laser art with a digital camera
Our new MAKE magazine columnist, iconic electronics guru Forrest M. Mims III (see “Country Scientist,” MAKE, Volume 17) has a piece up on the Jameco website about using a laser pointer to create cool laser-light patterns to capture with a digital camera: The coherent properties of a laser beam provide an ideal tool for creating […]
Reformatting memory cards
Dale tweets: “Did not know that you should reformat flash memory cards frequently for your camera. More to do.” And points to this New York Times Gadgetwise column: Reformatting ensures that the data on the card and the file structure are clean, which will help you avoid error messages or missing images. And the longer […]
$0 digital pinhole camera
Do you have a digital SLR camera, some black construction paper, aluminum foil, a rubber band, and tape? Great, let’s make a digital pinhole camera! The pinhole camera is the simplest type of camera. It has no lens, only a teeny-tiny hole of an iris. This pinhole ensures that the light which reaches any position […]
New Video Options
An increasing range of possibilities for hassle-free video.
DIY photobooth looks classic
From the MAKE Flickr pool Jeremy built a standalone photo booth/box with a Ricoh GR digicam and a number of salvaged parts – My goal is to build a portable photo booth that could be set up in virtually any location. It is build almost entirely of salvaged parts found at Goodwill, Habitat for Humanity’s […]
Universal TV remote with Canon cameras
Most Canon digital cameras have an IR remote feature that allows you to control the shutter with a Canon RC-1 or RC-5 wireless remote. These work exactly like a TV remote, and it turns out that the signaling for some VCRs and Satellite TV receivers are similar enough to the RC-1 that they will trigger […]