Create Digital Motion reader Seej writes: I do a lot of projection installations, in unique locations, usually with about zero setup time. When I looked into buying a professional 10’x7′ “fast-fold” screen, I was blown away by how much they cost. Instead, I decided to design my own, using easy to find materials. The Challenge: […]
It’s not maker-made, and I don’t propose a remake – Fluke’s Ti25 Thermal Imager is just too future-cool not to mention. The device combines infrared and visible-light images – now you can simply glance/scan back into a room to see if you left the iron/oven/soldering-iron on. Needles to say it’s pricey – suppose I’ll wait […]
> Steven his digital photo-art method – “Pixel-lapse” combines the temporal nature of long exposure photography and the precise organization of the digital matrix. By creating an image one pixel at a time, each part of the image shows different captured moments. In the end, each image not only has dimension but also gains duration […]
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 […]
Patrick shares results from his mammalian video exposรยฉ using motion activated video recording – Our 4-year old son left a piece of cheese out to see if there would be bite marks in the morning. Then we got more ambitious about tracking our visitors… 6:10am: this squirrel was so calm that 5 minutes of video […]
Bennett Williamson at FATLAB writes: The default Mac OS X (I’m on version 10.4.11) screensaver picture slideshow function can read an alpha channel in a .gif file. That is to say, as the slideshow plays your images, a .gif with an alpha channel will appear to be “on top” of the previous image, and as […]
This weekend at Maker Faire Instructables brought their laser cutter and was laser etching laptops, phones, and other things for free. My favorite is Alex Schlegel’s fractal-etched Vaio (source image included). If you had your gear etched, add a picture to the MAKE Flickr pool!
