Most Canon digital cameras have an IR remote feature that allows you to control the shutter with a Canon RC-1 or RC-5 wireless remote. These work exactly like a TV remote, and it turns out that the signaling for some VCRs and Satellite TV receivers are similar enough to the RC-1 that they will trigger […]
From the MAKE Flickr pool More Tinkerbots [above, bottom-left] Interactive table glows with conversation [above, top-right] Painfully-cute papercraft [above, top-left] Mobius music strip plays on … and on … [above, bottom-right] Hot reflow action! Experiments in stereolithography
From the MAKE Flickr pool DIY snowmaking [above, bottom-left] Max’s day of Making [above, top-right] New library teaches Arduino to speak iPod [above, bottom-right] Fibonacci sequence goes technoir, gets lagged [above, top-left]
A reader named Bruce sent in a request for a tool that will allow you to automatically download all of your Flickr photos for backup or export purposes. A quick search landed me on FlickrEdit, a Java desktop application that uses the Flickr API to manage and export your Flickr content. FlickrEdit will launch from […]
From the MAKE Flickr pool Homeforged tools [above, bottom-left] Hacked phone charger does the trick [above, top-right] Tempurature-sensing Munny [above, top-left] Early (giant) iPod prototype? [above, bottom-right]
Digital artist Kim Laughton made this cloud viewer out of an old keychain photo viewer. The backlight of the LCD screen was removed so you have to hold the box up to the light to see the clouds drifting by inside. Box of Clouds
I love this quirky idea of using old removable memory cards as covers to little books of photos. Talk about computer-age folk art. Memory card memories
