Motorizing a Simple Camera Slider
Improving your shots with a motorized camera slider doesn’t have to be complicated! Follow Jeremy Cook’s lead and cobble something custom together.
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.
Reinventing Cyberpunk for the #TwentyTeens
Like many great Make: ideas, the centerpiece of the latest issue, an homage to Mondo 2000’s iconic “R. U. a Cyberpunk?” poster (located in the forthcoming Make: Vol 62, page 24), all started in the Video Lab. Make:’s Senior Video Producer Tyler Winegarner and I like to sit around and bounce ideas off of each other, and sometime […]
Weekend Watch: Chris Mitchell is “Maken It So”
Look over an ambitious maker’s shoulder as he experiments with 3D printing, electronics, and making his own pinball machine.
Emulate Slit Scan Photography for Beautifully Weird Images
Slit scan photography is an interesting technique that yields abstract and beautiful results.
Transforming a Game Boy Camera into a Tool for Astrophotography
Alex Pietrow customized a Nintendo Game Boy Advance’s camera so that it could take pictures of celestial objects.
Bigfacebox, a Simple Way to Gigantify Your Head
Turn a box, a plastic lens, and some LEDs into a goofy-fun head magnifier.
The YouTuber’s Guide to Filming at Maker Faire
For visiting YouTubers, there are a few things, like basic etiquette and tips, to consider before you start filming at Maker Faire Bay Area.