Are you sick of bumping into your tripod when you’re shooting video or taking a picture of a project you’re currently working on? Wouldn’t it be great if there was something that could get your camera right where the action is so you can live stream your work area without breaking the bank? If you answered yes, check out this easy to assemble Mobile Document Camera Stand in Make Projects.
I have a little box in the top drawer of my workbench that I think of as a kind of miniature trophy room. Every time I successfully remove a tamper-resistant, “security,” or other PITA fastener, I toss it in the box.
This week in the MAKE Flickr pool we saw:
B.Light Design’s successful test of chalk in an Egg-Bot.
Wonderground’s first thing-a-day: resistor dodecahedra!
Pete Prodoehl’s panorama of the main room at Milwaukee Makerspace.
Alex Finn’s LED Matrix.
The interior of Copper Pete’s Switch-toid.
The first time I saw this video from Daniel Larsson and Tomas Redigh I was skeptical that they had really animated it by hand, just by moving a bunch of coins around on the floor. Then I saw the clever trick they were using to lay out the individual frames. Still a tedious task, requiring serious commitment.
If you’ve got an old camera laying around and are looking for some fun, try taking off the lens and snap a few pictures through it with your smartphone. If you’ve got a particularly interesting lens, like from a Lomo or some other odd plastic camera, you might then want to glue it to a spare case like redditor linc90 has with a derelict iPhone 4 case.
Laboriously captured by photographer Chris Kotsiopoulos on December 30-31, 2010, from the ruins of the ancient Temple of Poseidon at Sounion, Greece. Technical details at Earth Science Picture of the Day, and a more personal perspective at Chris’s Greek Sky Forum. [via Gizmodo]
I’m completely enamored by Tom Falconer’s gorgeous bubble photography, and he was nice enough to share his tips and tricks with us. Tom is a Tahoe resident, so he’s blessed by beautiful surroundings and cold temps that make shots like the one above possible. When I asked about shooting frozen bubbles, he said: “Frozen bubbles […]
