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.
This week in the MAKE Flickr pool we saw:
Viscous Fingering from nervous system.
DIY Vacuum Pickup fromdrug123.
I don’t ? spurious oscillations fromRob Cruickshank.
IMG_0847 fromTimothy J Silverman.
Hirschmann Connector fromanachrocomputer.
Nintendo MAX Synth fromMichaelRucci.
P1100524 fromTimothy J Silverman.
I’m not crafty—like, at all—when it comes to sewing and fiber arts, but the pun and the photo were pretty much irresistible. From Aldo Cavini Benedetti. [via Dude Craft]
Peer Kreuger loves his Lego models so much he builds specialized dollies and other camera mounts to take pictures of them. His latest, a Quadpod, looks great for recording in adverse conditions.
Cary Norton built this incredible large format camera out of LEGOs and calls it the Legotron, Mark I. The first few photographs Cary took with the camera left him “COMPLETELY FREAKING STOKED” and I understand why: they’re absolutely stunning. The focus range is currently limited to about 3 feet to 18 inches, but he hopes […]
This week in the MAKE Flickr pool we saw:
Printed Circuit Bloom from Lenny&Meriel.
Great dodecahemicosahedron from fdecomite.
Pirate Eggs! from Pete Prodoehl.
Angry Bird from dragonflyducky.
Delta Robot Assembled from robhopeless.
Pile-O-LED’s from Giant Eye.
This week in the CRAFT Flickr pool we saw, Feather Brooch by AntiBromide, with tutorial, bike cushion!, by mandalinarossa, and The Wind and The Sail, by laurastantz.
Browsing through the Winter 2011 issue of Anthology Magazine I came across a wonderful photo essay on Palm Springs by MAKE’s very own Jen Siska (Makeshift). Jen’s “visual travelogue” takes you through the sun-soaked San Jacinto Mountains and cacti-laced Mid-Century Modern dessert abodes, all captured with her Canon 5D Mark II (which retails for $2,500) … Save the last dreamy image of palms, shot by a $70 Holga CFN 120 (bottom left). It’s then that Anthology gives us a great little roundup of cheap cameras, ranging in price from $25 to $325, available from the cult favorite “analog photography” site, Lomography.
