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 pool Self-immolating wood oven OSC library for Arduino [above, bottom-right] All-in-one mint tin watercolor kit [above, top-left] Gakken synth bending + theremin control [above, bottom-left] DIY capacitive touchpad [above, top-left]
Today on EMS Labs, Lenore has a piece on how to successfully photograph Light-Emitting Diodes: Taking pictures of LEDs can be difficult. Digital camera sensors just don’t respond the same way that human eyes do, so it is nearly impossible to take a picture that reflects what you are seeing. But manipulating a few settings […]
Photojojo shows you how your morning cup of coffee and Vitamin C can help you develop film giving your photos a distinctive look while having fun experimenting with the process.
A group of student makers took kite arial photography to a new level: weather balloon photography. They certainly are undercutting NASA’s budget, spending very little on their project, and fabricating most of the structure and electronics themselves. Check out Gareth’s previous entry on the project. Mail Online has a decent writeup. Nice of them to […]
From the MAKE Flickr pool Laser sundial [above, bottom-left] How-To: Sample sequencer w/ Meggy Jr. + Arduino WaveShield DIY photobooth looks classic LED badge hacking MIDI control panel based on Arduino with a personal touch [above, bottom-right] Trumpet Hero mod [above, top-right] Keeping time with ChronoDot [above, top-left]
This how-to is in Hungarian, but the pictures pretty much tell you what you need to know. How to make a DIY ring flash
Our new MAKE magazine columnist, iconic electronics guru Forrest M. Mims III (see “Country Scientist,” MAKE, Volume 17) has a piece up on the Jameco website about using a laser pointer to create cool laser-light patterns to capture with a digital camera: The coherent properties of a laser beam provide an ideal tool for creating […]
