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.
Our featured image from the MAKE Flickr pool this week is by regular contributor Peter Barvoets, aka lookseeseen. Its subject is a glowing Geissler tube (Wikipedia), an early type of low-pressure gas discharge tube invented in Germany in 1857. Peter has another great shot of the same tube here.
Here are some cool things we saw in the CRAFT Flickr Pool this week: Potholders Front, by happysewlucky Sarah’s Doll, by made by agah Luftiges Perlencollier “Buntes Treiben”, by Jabberwocky’s Treasury tiny hearts, by cornflowerbluestudio I follow rivers – flipped, by MizzieMorawez
Clever gimmick from Germans Jirko Bannas and Oliver Seltmann, who, under the name Lightboys, market a few different types of these wall- and ceiling-mounted “light pictures.” This one, with a frame designed to suggest a giant instant film print, is called Polaboy. [via Dude Craft]
Remember Dazzle, the method of complex geometric camouflage painting introduced in WWI (designed to disguise the direction, size, and types of ships at sea)? Last year, New York University’s ITP student Adam Harveyโs Dazzle CV project brought a similar technology to modern facial recognition software.
“Based on the concept behind commercial units, but using everyday items (drinking straws, scrap PVC pipe, a kidโs humidifier from the thrift store, some scrap computer fans), he rigged up a device that creates a thin, even sheet of vapor mist. Almost translucent, but able to catch the light projected onto it from a rear-facing projector โ which gives an eerie, floating hologram effect…”
Members of Chinese Mindstorms site CMNXT made this excellent platform for controlling a camera. [via the NXTStep]
Digital camera sensors are typically sensitive to infrared light, but camera manufacturers install a infrared cut-off filter to block these wavelengths. If you have an old Canon point and shoot camera and want to try out infrared photography, Matthew Petroff has posted a guide to modding a Canon PowerShot SD400 for this technique.
