Using Arduino to Pull Images from an Analog Camera
Carlos Agell of Irvine, CA, used an Arduino and Nootropic Designs’ Video Experimenter Shield to acquire images from an analog camera. The quality isn’t high, but it’s a neat hack!
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.
Carlos Agell of Irvine, CA, used an Arduino and Nootropic Designs’ Video Experimenter Shield to acquire images from an analog camera. The quality isn’t high, but it’s a neat hack!
Manitoba maker, Don Barnard, shows us how how to throw together a simple softbox using a shipping container, dollar store sun reflector, flood light, and some duct tape.
Photographer Mark Stevenson was sick of losing lens caps, so he came up with this clever lens cap holder that slips on your camera strap. [via Gizmodo]
Learn all about photography and create stunning pictures with the Twin Lens Reflex Camera Kit from the Maker Shed. This kit offers the perfect balance between novelty, functionality and nostalgia. Two vertically arranged lenses, one for the viewfinder and one for the actual photograph, give this camera a unique appearance. Uses standard 35mm film.
This papercraft Leica by British artist Matthew Nicholson is cool by itself, but as an added bonus, it’s actually a functioning pinhole camera that images on 35mm stock. [via GeekyGadgets]
This week in the CRAFT Flickr pool, we saw: Homemade “Pop Tarts”, with recipe, by djwtwo, Birds and Flowers, by Rachel Ford James, and pulltab brooch red, by Freya Willemoes-Wissing.
Highlights from this week’s MAKE Flickr pool roundup include a solar-powered turntable, a lovely shot of a justifiably proud potter’s first wheel-thrown pots, a fantastically hare-brained concept sketch of a rocking chair with what appears to be a jet engine, and what may well be my favorite picture of Matt Richardson ever.