camera

Orientation aware camera

From the MAKE Flickr photo pool Andrew from Boulder, CO created an orientation aware USB camera and imaging software to go with it – First I built a circuit to make it so I could read a 3-axis magnetometer and a 3-axis accelerometer over USB, just for the heck of it. Then later, while trying […]

Candid bird cam

Candid bird cam

Bob writes – Your “Animals caught on tape” article reminded me of my project last year, where I put a webcam in a bird house and captured videos of the nest, the eggs, the babies, and feedings. At my web site, I have a page describing the construction of the bird house and the software […]

Arduino flash trigger

Arduino flash trigger

A user on the Arduino forums built this high-speed photo flash trigger – I used Arduino to build a trigger for my camera’s flash. It turned out to work really well! The write up includes an explanation of how camera triggers work and the benefits of using Arduino. One benefit of using a microcontroller like […]

PIR camera

PIR camera

Here’s an interesting kit for a PIR sensor controlled camera. Though with only a 640×480 CMOS view, you may want a higher resolution to identify stealthy intruders – When the sensor detects movement in a room it will take a burst of 10 photos with the digital camera. Each photo is taken at 0.5sec interval. […]

Disposable camera ring light

Disposable camera ring light

Divet has a nice Instructable on how-to make a ring light out of disposable cameras Looks like it works well, just watch where you put your fingers. Build a disposable camera ring flash. Disposable cameras are discarded after the film has been removed. Photo labs often have boxes of them under the counter, waiting to […]