Photography & Video

The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for creating and editing digital photos and videos, as well as how to make your own still and video cameras.

Dynamically Generated Closed Captioning Cloud

Dynamically Generated Closed Captioning Cloud

The makers of the Video Experimenter Shield for Arduino have used their product to create an instantly updating word cloud from over-the-air television closed captioning data. The NTSC video is passed through the shield and the Arduino sends the closed captioning text to the computer via serial. The cloud is generated by a Processing sketch, which makes words larger if they’re spoken more frequently.

Dear Photograph

In honor of Design & Photography month, I thought I’d share a wonderful user-contributed photoblog, Dear Photograph. The idea is simple — “take a picture of a picture from the past in the present”. Ha! OK, that may sound complicated, but it’s easy to see what 22-year-old DP creator, Taylor Jones, is talking about. [See […]