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 photo pool Modded knee brace [above, bottom-right] Results from the electric junk guitar workshop [above, bottom-left] Hot PCB lasering action DFW Synth DIY Meet up Big box o’ techno [above, top-right] Catastrophic Cacophony Workshop DIY easel-workstation [above, top-left]
From the MAKE Flickr photo pool ThingamaHat [above, top-left] Headphone-muffs [above, top-right] Remote-controlled ducks [above, bottom-left] Money-button [above, bottom-right] Vacuum tube earring
This video shows a site specific film called the “Image Mill” projected onto 81 individual grain silos that are each 30 meters tall. The film was shot in such a way so that the contours of the silos are integrated into the picture to create a more realistic image landscape. Watch the video and you […]
Day 2 of 5 in 5 brought to life a periodic tote, tickets to a sunset, a year in pictures, balls of light. In an impromptu celebration of old-time computing we got earrings compatible with your PC, AsteriskFTP, and thank goodness there’s finally BASIC for Twitter. Clink your glasses for a laser photo trigger, trip […]
From the MAKE Flickr photo pool HTML Color Name Generator Dollars to buttons [above, top-left] rulers + tape +books = Rule Organ [above, top-right] Ikea kitchen hack: in-board bowl [above, bottom-left] Tori Amos in LEGO [above, bottom-right]
“CamTim” is yet another camera hack that allows any digital camera with a remote control to be used for time-lapse photography. It also allows for external trigger mode so that you can hook up a Zigbee module to it for instance and control it from far distances. The system uses a PIC16F84A and relays to […]
This hack shows how to turn a Sony video camera into a motion detector to track animals in the wild and would then begin to record when it saw something moving. Although this feature is sometimes already built into video cameras, this maker decided to create her own using a simple relay circuit to control […]
