MAKE Flickr pool weekly roundup
From the MAKE Flickr pool Arduino ISP Shield Business card caliper Super-simple camera clamp mount Ammo box fireworks controller IC wallet from chess-case Giant-sized VU meters
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.
Shadowgrams and Schlieren photography
False-color shadowgram of gunshot from a .357 magnum by Gary Settles at Penn State university. The New York Times has an awesome slideshow of shadowgrams and Schlieren photographs, created by engineering professor Gary Settles, which accompany a 2008 article about his work at Penn State’s Gas Dynamics Lab. The method, which can produce fantastic visualizations […]
Andrew Chase’s mechanimals
io9 features some cool shots of sculptures by designer and photographer Andrew Chase, who makes articulated metal animal sculptures. Here’s a stop-motion video he made by posing his “cheetah:” Via Neatorama.
How-To: PVC gimbal stabilizer
I really like the inexpensive gimbal support developed by William over at YB2nornal for his $15 steadicam project. I may bogart it for a forthcoming Make: Project. Via Hack a day. From the pages of MAKE: Johnny Lee showed us how to build a $14 Video Camera Stabilizer way back in MAKE 01.
Super-simple camera clamp mount
From the MAKE Flickr pool Flickr member six million dollar dan made clever use of a spring clamp for his garden timelapse camera – clamp is standard spring clamp. it actually has a hole in it already that fits a #1/4-20 screw. #1/4-20 is standard size for camera mounts (in the USA at least). I […]
CRAFT Video: Pinhole Camera
Learn to make and use a pinhole camera! Find out where to get supplies and how to develop the images here: http://blog.craftzine.com/archive/2009/07/craft_video_pinhole_camera.html
Intern’s Corner: Making my own magazine
Every other week, MAKE’s awesome interns tell about the projects they’re building in the Make: Labs, the trouble they’ve gotten into, and what they’ll make next. By Ed Troxell, photo intern When I landed my internship here at MAKE it was my real break into the magazine industry. I remember telling myself that if I […]
