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 photo pool Automatic Cat Faucet [above, bottom-right] Former minivan makes new trailer Electric gongs [above, bottom-left] Aurora open-source music controller LEGO paper-cone record player [above, top-left] Gakken Electronics experimentor set [above, top-right] Indian beatmachine bending Maker’s Quilt – first board DIY battery level indicator Giant connect four game board Demolished house […]
We pointed out this great Instructable on making LED light drawing pens a while back. Stuart and Lori have a really neat tutorial about light drawing on their site, LightDoodles. (I’ve always loved this picture of Picasso.) Light doodling or light drawing can be described as the simple act of capturing the trace of a […]
From the MAKE Flickr photo pool Twitter Fail Whale [above, top-left] Wind-powered string plucker Hydrophone eyeball? [above, top-right] Soldering floss [above, bottom-right] Cigarette tin “boom” box[above, bottom-left] PVC sprinkler = summertime fun
Here’s another beautiful photo essay by Marc Steinmetz – plastination by Gunther von Hagen. It’s fascinating and somewhat disturbing – don’t click through if you’re squeamish. Here’s a short explanation of the process.
Sebastian Szyszka has a great write-up on how to photograph fireworks. He covers the delicate balance of ISO and aperture settings along with everything else you need to know. In the end, it seems to be fairly easy to do if you use a tripod and a decent camera. Read more about Photographing Fireworks
The Glocal website has got the MAKE site pinned on this one: an open source, Arduino-powered, Altoids tin-encased digital photo hack. From the site: This Arduino-based hack lets you take pictures by triggering your camera’s shutter on a time delay (every ten seconds, every 20, every ten minutes…), or by plain old sound: you make […]
From the MAKE Flickr photo pool Bent voice morpher [above, top-left] DIY guitar picks [above, top-right] Bucket-borne hydroelectric generator [above, bottom-left] Solar Bench [above, bottom-right] Orientation aware camera The Time Harp Basic I/O for Arduino As Becky so astutely pointed out, MAKE pool hit 4,000 members this week – Woohoo! and growing … and growing […]
