Pandemics apparently bring out some odd shopping tendencies and supply chain breakdowns. First the stores ran out of toilet paper. Then they ran out of yeast. And now, with everyone telecommuting to work and school, there’s a shortage of USB webcams, with many people doubling (or quadrupling) the price of what they still have in […]
If you like taking selfies that render your likeness completely unrecognizable, then you may be just the assimilationist contrarian to make a hypnotically glitchy selfie with this experimental project
Fran Blanche is a self-described “corset maker, pedal designer, engineer, artist, musician, occasional radio DJ, subpar singer, and full time goofball” from Philadelphia who has, at least in the not-too-distant past, run a bespoke guitar FX business called Frantone. So much win.
The fine folks over at Tweak Labs converted a cheap webcam into a microscope by inverting it’s lens, then used it to create this excellent video of some microscopic creatures doing their thing.
MAKE subscriber Bob Alexander sent us info about his bird house with a 3D webcam inside: At the this URL, I describe how my bird house with an adjustable 3D web camera works. On the main site, http://bobsbirdblog.com, I post 3D videos (and 2D for those without glasses) of what’s happening inside the bird house. […]
I lived in a rental years ago that had a water tower on the property. Each year barn owls nested in the eaves of the water tower, and each year my husband and I spent many evenings sitting nearby watching them. We saw babies learn to fly, mother and father swoop in and out with […]
From planetwrite in the MAKE Flickr pool, This ought to scare the daylights out of your average babysitter!
