Make: Flickr pool weekly roundup
From the MAKE: Flickr pool HOW TO – Breadboard memory game Behold … the Rusty Growler! One tasty motherboard … DIY gadget makeover Light to sound converter circuit Handmade lens cap
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.
Handmade lens cap
From the MAKE: Flickr pool Instead of tracking down and buying a lens cap for that unprotected cam, consider the incredibly affordable DIY alternative – and enjoy the simple pleasure using what you’ve made. Flickr member safoocat did so, following instructions she found here
DSLR camera shutter in action
P^2 captured this very awesome video of a DSLR’s exposure process – First attempt at capturing high-speed motion. This is a Pentax K200D shutter, as seen by a K100D and a high-speed strobe. Timing is provided by a few lines of C bitbanging a PC parallel port (in DOS, with interrupts disabled, natch). Stop action […]
Penny postcards
USGenWeb, a genealogy site, has a really cool collection of penny postcards, organized by state. I love looking at the old structures – can you imagine driving on this bridge?
Make: television — pole camera rig
Another in my continuing series of behind the scenes photos from the Make: television set. This is the tilt and shoot rig we built for the pole camera. We mounted it on top of a very long pole and used a remote control and two servos to take photos. You can see next to the […]
Controlling Sony camcorders with the Arduino
The Local Application Control Bus System (LANC) is the protocol used by Sony camcorders (and some other brands as well) that allows external accessories to control the camera remotely. On most cameras, you’ll find a LANC port next to your camera’s other IO jacks—it’s usually a 2.5mm headphone-style jack, or a 5 pin mini-DIN. If […]
Random image combiner program
These lovely images were created with PSCombine, a random image combiner program. From the site: I’ve written a program that randomly selects photos from my collection and then combines them with a random opacity and blending mode. Generally, I generate 5,000 random combinations then manually sort though them and select my favorites. About 1 in […]
