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 Star Wars minifig Joule Thief [bottom-left] Noise Toy in a Tea Tin [bottom-right] ‘Computervision’ PC mod[top-right] Lasering button elements[top-left] 555 timer cake Benito7 Arduino programmer Underground storm shelter Speaker Dolls 2-string fretless bass Grounding bar lamellaphone Guitar Hero standard MIDI controller deluxe Arduino text input device
Boing Boing TV did a really nice two-part interview with MAKE contributor, Whole Earth Catalog and Review editor, and Wired co-founder (and one of my personal heroes) Kevin Kelly. While not mainline Make: Blog fare, Kevin talks about a number of things makers might find interesting: nomadic photojournalism (and how you can take good pictures […]
This is my second year as an amateur beekeeper, and this last weekend we split our first hive, creating a second colony which will be relocated to a new home in the suburbs. In nature, bees will swarm to start a new hive. Half the colony wakes up one morning and decides it’s too crowded, […]
From the MAKE Flickr photo pool LCD Graffiti [above, top-left] Space weather receiver [above, top-right] Midibox rox your sox [above, bottom-left] Robot Spirograph [above, bottom-right]
Cool long-exposure photography using a two-wheeled Picaxe-powered robot as the light-source. I like the use of the CD jewel case as a bot body. Lenny’s Blog
What do you do when you can’t find the right kind of film for you camera? Make it yourself, at least that is what “dark orange” decided to tackle. This is an incredible undertaking, and you need to have some very good technical skills to pull it off. I love his description of the process: […]
I like the idea of using an EL panel for picture illumination, and I have another use for it. I need to take pictures of glass for an upcoming project and this would be a great solution for lighting the piece. To get really nice pictures of glass you have to light them from underneath. […]
