If you’re used to shooting video with a video camera and are having a hard time adjusting to shooting with a DSLR lens, then you’re probably looking for a cheap follow focus for your kit. If you’d like to save a couple of grand and forgo any personal aesthetics, you can try this snazzy DIY follow focus pieced together from K’nex by prippman from Bootleg Productions.
Built by a 56-year-old Italian mechanic for his daughter, Erika, after she broke her arm practicing. [via Dude Craft]
Her name is Daniela. Built by Portuguese master craftsman Carlos Alberto and named in honor of his daughter, this faithfully reproduced Vespa motor scooter is hand crafted almost entirely out of laminated hardwood. What’s truely amazing is that it’s an actually fully functioning scooter!
Click photos to embiggen. My old friend Patrick Young made what he calls the “Poor Man’s Flat Screen & Rolling Entertainment System.” I asked him to describe it for me. Here are pictures of my Poor Man’s Flat Screen & Rolling Entertainment System. Pressured by the social stigma of having to keep up with the […]
Check out this clean MacBook tablet conversion by EnigmaPenguin. He’s re-used the case by cutting a hole large enough for the screen to show through and added a USB touch screen. The result is rather impressive for such a cheap mod.
I wish I understood Japanese so I knew what this was about. On second thought, perhaps it’s better that I don’t. [Via Boing Boing]
Sometimes you have a real need to mount your tablet computer to a wall or other vertical surface. That’s where common sense and good old fashioned ingenuity comes in. Seattle area foodie and avid DIY’er, Tumbleweed, shows us that you needn’t spend exorbitant amounts of money on some specialized billet aluminum wall mounting kit. A $2.84 “Delux Plate Hanger Set” will do the trick.
