Make your own ring flash unit
This how-to is in Hungarian, but the pictures pretty much tell you what you need to know. How to make a DIY ring flash
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Maker Faire Newcastle in 3D
Break out the 3D glasses, it’s a few pics from this weekend’s UK Maker Faire in Newcastle. Maker Fair2 in 3D
How-To: Create laser art with a digital camera
Our new MAKE magazine columnist, iconic electronics guru Forrest M. Mims III (see “Country Scientist,” MAKE, Volume 17) has a piece up on the Jameco website about using a laser pointer to create cool laser-light patterns to capture with a digital camera: The coherent properties of a laser beam provide an ideal tool for creating […]
Reformatting memory cards
Dale tweets: “Did not know that you should reformat flash memory cards frequently for your camera. More to do.” And points to this New York Times Gadgetwise column: Reformatting ensures that the data on the card and the file structure are clean, which will help you avoid error messages or missing images. And the longer […]
$0 digital pinhole camera
Do you have a digital SLR camera, some black construction paper, aluminum foil, a rubber band, and tape? Great, let’s make a digital pinhole camera! The pinhole camera is the simplest type of camera. It has no lens, only a teeny-tiny hole of an iris. This pinhole ensures that the light which reaches any position […]
DIY photobooth looks classic
From the MAKE Flickr pool Jeremy built a standalone photo booth/box with a Ricoh GR digicam and a number of salvaged parts – My goal is to build a portable photo booth that could be set up in virtually any location. It is build almost entirely of salvaged parts found at Goodwill, Habitat for Humanity’s […]
Cockeyed uses for your camera
Rob has some clever tips for how to use your digital camera. For the past five years or so I have had a pocket camera with me every day. I find lots of uses for it, and the rapidly taken, easily accessed photos. Despite the massive collection of physical photos in slide, print and negative […]
