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.
The Glif folks are about to ship the first round of their cleverly designed and crowd source-funded tripod mount for the iPhone 4. Check out this short video they made detailing some of the back-end processes that occur when setting up an injection molding job.
Thanks to maker DannyBR, with the addition of a quarter-inch hole, the ever useful binder clip has acquired a new talent: smartphone tripod mount.
Photography gearhound Matt Richardson’s videos are really getting super great. This one about high-speed photography shows an elaborate version of your basic “balloon, mid-pop” setup. Awesome! More: MAKE Video audition: Matt Richardson’s Google Reader pedal Explody Easter Peeps (High speed photography) High speed photography – water figures Make Podcast: High Speed Photography – Weekend Projects
Claire of Poopscape points us to these eerily beautiful photographs from artist Daniel Del Nero. Del Nero creates small scale cardboard buildings and covers them in flour and mold spores and then photographs the resulting decay.
Sean Lee wanted to take close-up pictures of his projects, but his camera’s focal range fell short. His wife suggested taping on a lens from a pair of dollar store reading glasses. Sean shared this workaround on Make: Projects, and posted impressive before and after shots, especially for 50 cents.
Does your camera’s focal range not have the chops to take quality close-ups? Why make things complicated? Just tape on a lens from a pair of dollar store reading glasses. Sean Lee shared this hack on Make: Projects, and posted impressive before and after shots, especially for a paltry 50 cents.
Our friends over at iFixit take us on a tour inside the recently released Boxee Box. This oddly shaped box manufactured by D-Link houses media player hardware that runs the popular media management software. It appears to be every bit as interesting on the inside as it does on the outside.
