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.
MAKE pal Charlie Visnic, of the wonderful creativity blog the b-roll, was inspired by Matt Mets’ post on how a mechanical watch works. Charlie decided to open up a pocket watch he had and do some macro photography. The resulting video, backed by a soundtrack of his own, created with a punchcard roll music box, […]
After checking out some old ViewMaster slides today, my son and I decided to shoot our own stereoscopic photos. Here’s the rig I built and a description of the process from my blog. I build this simple rig out of chemistry lab equipment. (Yes, it’s the same bar stand and clamp set I used to […]
This week in the CRAFT Flickr pool we saw: Ginko the Glowinthedark Bear Me by loveandasandwich, Home container box by gaudblogvrudaii, Class: DIY Footwear using recycled jeans by DoNight, and Friendship Bracelets by goodnightgracie.
Craig Kaplan and Robert Bosch turned the Traveling Salesman Problem – a famous and important problem from computer science – in to a way of rendering halftone images, called TSP Art. The goal of the Travelling Salesman Problem (TSP) is, given a list of cities, to determine the shortest tour that visits each city exactly […]
Photoduino is an open-source driver for cameras based on the Arduino platform. Its main purpose is to serve as technical support for taking photographs of various techniques such as: Timelapse, High Speed Photography, Photography of insects and animals, or storms, HDR, among others. The circuit containing the electronic control is capable of auto focus and […]
Like using off-camera flash units for your photography, but tired of having to walk over to them to adjust the flash power?
If you’d like to get more control over you flash and a regular bounce card doesn’t cut it, then try this handy DIY FlashBender by Bob Jordan.
