CRAFT Flickr Pool Weekly Roundup
Need some crafty inspiration? Here are some of the cool things we saw in the CRAFT Flickr Pool this week!
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MAKE Flickr Pool Weekly Roundup
This week in the MAKE Flickr pool we saw…
CRAFT Flickr Pool Weekly Roundup
Need some crafty inspiration? Here are some of the cool things we saw in the CRAFT Flickr Pool this week!
DIY Smartphone LED Ring Light
A ring flash will get you a shot with uniform lighting without harsh shadows. Lighting blogger Simon Ellingworth whipped up this LED variant for smartphones using a UFO-style camping light, a cheap smartphone case, and some velcro. You’ll obviously have to tweak your settings to achieve the effect you want, but anything has to be […]
Best of 2012: The MAKE Flickr Pool
Today’s post marks the 170th MAKE Flickr pool weekly roundup. They’ve been running each weekend under that title, with very few interruptions, since February 2008, and have settled into a more-or-less regular format. Each Sunday we present seven pictures, in reverse-Letterman order, starting with the image that, for whatever reasons, is our favorite of those submitted during the preceding week. Generally, for the roundup, we choose pictures based on their aesthetics. And we’ve seen some stunners this year. Settling on only seven proved to be impossible, for me, so I’ve doubled the weekly count, for this annual best-of, to fourteen.
MAKE Flickr Pool Weekly Roundup
This week in the MAKE Flickr pool we saw…
Light Painting with a Thermal Flashlight
Impressed with the Public Laboratory’s Thermal Flashlight prototype, maker Max Justicz whipped together a nice self-contained version using an infrared thermometer, some RGB LEDs, and an Arduino housed inside a commercial flashlight enclosure to perform a little DIY thermal imaging.
