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.
On a tight budget, documenting art that lives in a lake can be quite a challenge – especially when it’s composed of “6,000 tons of rock and soil” – After considering nearly every possible way to document “Spiral Jetty” from above — Rent a weather satellite? An airplane? A helicopter? Use a kite? — the […]
My father recently drew my attention to an article in IEEE Spectrum about the so-called “Zink” printing technology commercialized by a group of former Polaroid employees. Zink, an acronym for “zero ink,” uses special paper with three layers of embedded dye crystals activated by heaters in the print head. Solely by controlling the temperature and duration of heat pulses delivered by the print head, the yellow, magenta, and/or cyan layers may be selectively activated. It is essentially a refinement of the black-only thermal printing technology commonly used, for example, in cash registers and label makers. By eliminating the requirement for ink or toner, Zink promises to produce dramatically smaller and more portable color printers, and has already been incorporated in several “digital polaroid” style cameras with integral photo-printers, such as the Polaroid PoGo Instant Digital Camera. [Thanks, Dad!]
From the MAKE Flickr pool MIDI fader controller with Arduino [above, bottom-right] DVD rack built from VHS tapes [above, bottom-left] My new favorite etchant [above, top-right] Amazing homemade globe [above, top-left]
The BigShot digital camera is a kit designed to teach kids how they work while they assemble and use it. It’s being developed by Shree Nayar and his team at the Computer Vision Lab at Columbia University.
Hot on the heels of the recent release of a mobile image editing app for the iPhone, Adobe unveils its photoshop.com mobile for Android.
Craig Smith sent us these pics and note: My telescope is low end in the scope-world, a 60mm refractor. But I discovered the eyepiece is the same size as my digital camera telephoto lens. My digital camera is low end in the camera world, too, a 3.2MP. But put them together with a custom PVC […]
Tiffany at Art Food AND Motherhood informs us that it’s Polaroid Week on Flickr! She’s got a great roundup of tips on her blog for caring and storing your Polaroid photos and later in the week will include some DIY framing ideas and simple display ideas for your Polaroid photos. Tiffany also has an i […]
