MAKE Flickr photo pool member DuganJ mounted a CVS digital video camera to his bike, if you’re thinking of hacking up a camera for reuse and mounting it to a bicycle, this is worth a looksie – Link. Related: CVS camcorder usably hacked! – Link. HOW TO CVS Video Camera Hacking for PC & Macs. […]
Kathreen Ricketson wears many hats as a crafter, mother, wife, and designer — yet most of us know her best by the fabulous craft portal blog she runs called Whip Up. She’s got a knack for finding a lot of cool things, something I discovered way back to last fall when I first started posting […]
Sarah’s Pink of Perfection video blog shows us in the most recent segment how to save money and recycle old jars to create nice lighting for those evening backyard BBQs. From Sarah, “I turned instead to the charming jelly jar, but you could use empty salsa and peanut butter jars to the same end. On […]
Tim shows you how to use an old phonograph turntable and strobe light to display 2 and 3d animated artworks – Link. At the Exporatorium in SF they have a display like this by artist Toshio Iwai, and it’s really fun to watch.
O’Reilly’s Radar has a brief write up of a “3D live motion video camera that uses LIDAR technology to get a range-finding for every pixel” – you could “scan” an area and put all the 3D data in to just about any application, wow! Link & full image. Related: Google video tech talk about the […]
A clever Maker used a CD-ROM lens on a web camera to make a DIY digital microscope – Link & translated page. Related: QX5 Computer Microscope – Link. Turn a Mac into a microscope on the cheap – Link. The Paper Microscope – Link. 3D Video microscope – Link. Build your own digital microscope – […]
Spin to Knit is a new book due out in October by CRAFT friend and knitgrrl Shannon Okey. The book site has just launched and it’s filled with preview pages, a secret pals SWAP group, and a great free pattern to make Shannon’s Power Station Hat. We can’t wait to check out this book! Link.
