Randall writes – These are pictures I took by hanging cameras from kites, a hobby I’ve played with on and off over the years. To get the camera to take pictures, I built a 555 timer circuit that, every 13 seconds, throws a relay wired to the camera’s shutter button. I used a small delta […]
MAKE Flickr photo pool member Curiouslee writes – The iPhone camera lens is flush with the back of the perfectly flat back of the device making it easy to hold a pocket magnifier loupe in front to convert the camera into a microscope. Here I am using a Radio Shack 15x 3-lens magnifier on a […]
Tom writes – I’ve made a cheap and easy to build time lapse camera, using an old mobile phone, some java software, general firmware hackery and an old phone carrycase. Most of the other timelapse camera mods I’ve seen on here and Make are based on wiring up a timer to switch the camera on, […]
Eirikso swears you get a pretty cool video if you dare to duct tape your Nokia N95 to a kite and send it 70 feet into the air while it is filming – Link.
Tres writes – Here is a link to pictures of an attempt by a group of Calpoly engineers to have a UAV glider bring back pictures from 100,000 feet. After some sleepless nights and an overwhelming amount of work on hardware and software we launched a glider in California Valley. The balloon reach about 31,000 […]
Chris writes – Phil – The other day my sd card failed on my digital camera. After buying a new camera and card to replace my beater and the dead card, I decided to try to recover about three weeks of pictures from the card. After a little searching I found this great utility from […]
Here’s a super easy hardware store light-backdrop stand that uses plungers to hold up the poles & painter extension poles that twist lock, clever! – Link.
