MAKE Flickr photo pool member Jyoseph has a “DIY RingLight for the home depot goers. You’ll need to be comfortable with basic hand tools and will probably need to work with a power saw and drill, unless you find a sufficient work around which is quite possible. Be ready to spend about $30-$40 and an […]
Tom writes – “Check out Steven Tafts excellent summary of how he built a homebrew omniscope anamorphic pinhole camera from some wood and pvc pipe! His design makes images that were previously only possible using a commercially available camera that costs $100s of dollars more!” – Link.
Jyoseph writes – “The following is a tutorial on how to create an extension tube / reverse mount for a standard 18-55mm lens using common plumbing supplies found at your local hardware store…Reversing the lens using a “reversing ring”. This special adapter attaches to the filter thread on the front of a lens and makes […]
Ka Nai’a’ writes – “A while back I saw someone had taken a webcam and changed it over to an InfraRed (IR) webcam. I had thought about doing that before but never did because I saw all these new webcams that had the IR LEDs on the camera and made it an IR webcam. Even […]
Calazon Enterprises made a fun stop motion LEGO movie, with an unhappy ending for a frog. When will the frog abuse craze end? – [via] – Link. Related: More LEGO stop motion videos – Link. Stop Motion Animation, the Easy Way. With iStopMotion, making Gumby is less pokey. MAKE 02 – Page 129.
Adrian writes – “A tutorial on how to make “spinning” photography of objects to large to fit on a turntable. All you need is a long piece of rope, chalk and a parking lot! (From the photographer who made the camera made out of Legos.)” – Link.
We’ve covered this hologram kit before, and so far the Makers out there have reported limited success, but it seems like a fun project I’d like to try – “The Design a Hologram Kit has everything you need to make your own transmission holograms – up to 20 of them. Each film plate is a […]
