Dan Reetz hates it when manufacturers make up a proprietary connector when there are viable standard alternatives, so he gave the Casio EX-FH100 shutter release/video/USB cable what it had coming: a good hack. The process is abstracted enough to take this technique to another situation, and his tutorial is funny, too (warning, some adult language).
When Jason received a flat screen TV for Christmas, he knew immediately that he wanted to make a cover for it so that it would look stylish in his home. He created his own TV cover out of felt and as a nice touch, he added SMPTE-style color bars to the front. Not only that, […]
Judging from the fleets of gas grills parked outside almost every big box home improvement store for the last five or six years one could assume that there’s been a bit of an uptick in outdoor cooking. While barbeque tends to take center stage in this ritual, there’s almost no thought given to basic kitchen amenities outside of the more elaborate setups. If you do a fair amount of your cooking outside, when the weather’s nice, and you’d like access to a sink, gas burner, cutting surface and storage space, check out this handsome DIY outdoor kitchen from London-based designer Nina Tolstrup. Step-by-step PDF instructions are available on her site.
Rich Faulhaber wanted enough sand-polished “beach glass” or “sea glass” (Wikipedia) to cover a walkway, and didn’t want to spend the rest of his life combing beaches for it. So he figured out how to make his own knock-off version. [via Boing Boing]
Andy’s lovely mood lamp looks even better under the hood! To keep the pattern of light even, he devised a really sweet dodecahedral assembly of custom circuit boards with SMD LEDs mounted on them. The first thing I did was devise a plane for the “bulb.” I decided to go with a dodecagon, which I […]
The inimitable Randy Sarafan writes: I decided to make a quality DIY intervalometer for my DSLR Pentax camera. This intervalometer should work with most major brands of DSLR cameras such as Nikons and Canons. It works by triggering the shutter using the camera’s remote trigger port. It can also auto-focus before each shot if so […]
Experiment with a ring flash on the cheap with this DIY papercraft ring flash project from Diego Billi and Sylights. Just plug your camera and flash specs into the Ring Flash Template Creator, print, then cut, fold, and paste. You’ll end up with a nifty little light guide that’ll get you started.
