Jon Singer is a DC-area mad scientist (and I mean that in the best possible sense). He gave a great presentation at the March 2007 Dorkbot DC on his work with building pulsed ultraviolet lasers using a lot of scrounged, readily-available components. The laser assembly he brought to the meeting, fashioned out of paint-encrusted rulers, […]
YouTube user Starcross42 has been uploading a series of great vids on laser effects for shows and how he achieves them using commercial and homemade laser tech. He has seven “Build a Laser Effects Shows” on YouTube. Be sure to check all of his videos, which include some other laser-related and other cool science and […]
George writes – My dad is quite inventive. He loved the Canon S2 IS camera that I had purchased for myself. So he got himself one a long time back. Of course being the rascal that he is it had to be improved. When trying to take close up macro photos the flash would burn […]
Sean sent in some great pictures of the telescopes from the Stellafane 2007 competition… Link.
This one is for all the folks in the MAKE Flickr photo group, Flickr has a new upload screen, a lot better, with batch operations too! – Link.
Steve writes – About two months ago, Earl commissioned me to make him a ceramic camera. Here is the result. It is made of stoneware, fired to 1,300 degrees C. (2,350 F.) It has a matte black glaze on the inside. I did a post-firing application of 23 K gold leaf on it as well. […]
Two new Instructables about pinhole photography showed up this week. If you’ve never played around with non-digital photography, this is a really fun. Being in a dark room and seeing your own lensless photos appear magically in a tray of chemicals is a magical experience that everyone should have! Zoneplates are like pinholes, but they […]
