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.
Backyard FX have been running auditions for a new host of the show. I’m pretty impressed with many of the entries. Not only are the hosts surprisingly good, but the production values are fairly high, and the projects they document, decent. Here, Mike Smith and his robot sidekick, Tec, show you how they built a […]
Achieving good camera position for soldering and various tutorial shots has always been quite a challenge for me. I’ve tried Gorilla-Pods, table leaning tripods, and a few different DIY designs with varying amounts of success. Oddly, I never considered my own gooseneck/panavise hack as a possible solution – I suppose the weight of the camera […]
Take control of your co-worker’s cursor and drive ’em nuts. Thanks go to John Edgar Park for the original article in MAKE Volume 15. To download The Evil Mouse Prank video video click here and subscribe in iTunes. Check out the complete Evil Mouse Prank article in MAKE Volume 15 and you can see that […]
Over the years, we’ve posted a lot of low/no-budget sci-fi fan films, stop motion videos, Lego “brickfilms,” and other movies lovingly made by makers with a fun idea and a home video camera. We decided to look through the site and gather up some of our favorites. Collaborative Star Wars fan film Amazing sci-fi short […]
In response to our DIY Movie Making theme, John Martin, of Reallusion, makers of the machinima/animation software iClone, sent us this adorable piece he did using the software he and his brother James developed. As he put it in email: “iClone and a crew of two. No render farm. No team. No limits, with an […]
From the MAKE Flickr pool: Francesco Capponi created this handy printable template (A4, unfortunately for U.S. makers!) for creating a pinhole camera using a roll of 35mm film. Both the template and instructions are found on Francesco’s Flickr page. More: Anamorphic pinhole camera of sturdiness $0 digital pinhole camera RPM pinhole cameras, kits, and free […]
This is the fanciest first aid kit I’ve ever seen! MacGuffin Films made this one up with everything they might need for a location shoot for about $235 total, not including the $55 Husky case. In addition to bandaging cuts and scrapes, this kit can ease almost any ailment that would delay filming. Parts list […]
