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 More Tinkerbots [above, bottom-left] Interactive table glows with conversation [above, top-right] Painfully-cute papercraft [above, top-left] Mobius music strip plays on … and on … [above, bottom-right] Hot reflow action! Experiments in stereolithography
This easy to construct kit is a fun way to play with cellular automata and video synthesis. When complete you will be able to uncover endless visual and sound patterns on any TV, no programming necessary. Available in the Maker Shed. http://www.makershed.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=MKCG1
From the MAKE Flickr pool DIY snowmaking [above, bottom-left] Max’s day of Making [above, top-right] New library teaches Arduino to speak iPod [above, bottom-right] Fibonacci sequence goes technoir, gets lagged [above, top-left]
A reader named Bruce sent in a request for a tool that will allow you to automatically download all of your Flickr photos for backup or export purposes. A quick search landed me on FlickrEdit, a Java desktop application that uses the Flickr API to manage and export your Flickr content. FlickrEdit will launch from […]
From the MAKE Flickr pool Homeforged tools [above, bottom-left] Hacked phone charger does the trick [above, top-right] Tempurature-sensing Munny [above, top-left] Early (giant) iPod prototype? [above, bottom-right]
Digital artist Kim Laughton made this cloud viewer out of an old keychain photo viewer. The backlight of the LCD screen was removed so you have to hold the box up to the light to see the clouds drifting by inside. Box of Clouds
Watermarking images can sometimes be a decent way to allow posted content to make the rounds online, while ensuring that the source of the content is correctly attributed. One thing that’s always bugged me about watermarking, however, is that the original source site becomes all peppered with ratty attributions or logos that detract from the […]
