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.
An old friend of mine, photographer Billy Baque, once told me of a rumor about gardeners in the early 20th century reusing unwanted glass plate negatives to build greenhouses. This idea–a sunlit glass room full of growing plants, dappled with the accidental shadows of unwanted memories–is to me almost too beautiful to explain. So I […]
In this CRAFT Video, learn to make and use a pinhole camera from materials you probably already have around the house. This is a great project to do with your kids over the summer, or just to learn something new on your own. When you make one, post up your photos and cameras in the […]
From the MAKE Flickr pool Solar night light circuit art High speed glass breakage Creep out your babysitter! DIY air rocket Candy PCB most likely ROHS-compliant [above, bottom-right] FedEx wine rack [above, bottom-left] Power drill coffee grinder [above, top-right] Compressed air rocket goes up, must come down … somewhere? [above, top-left]
Some tips on taking the best pics of explosions in the sky.
Happy 4th of July! Our friends at Photojo have 11 tips for sparkling fireworks photos so you can snap some beautiful images tonight, like this one at the San Francisco Ferry Building by Flickr user john curley.
An alloy of 1.3% copper, 0.3% magnesium, and 0.3% manganese in aluminum, etched with potassium permanganate and lye. So I woke up this morning all pumped up to blog about metallography. If you don’t already know, metallography is a type of scientific microimaging that involves mirror-polishing metal surfaces and then etching them with various reagents […]
I recently got it in my head that I wanted to take some time-lapse photos showing the oxidation of various bright-polished metals over the course of a week or so. Investigating the possibility of setting up an intervalometer for my elderly Coolpix 4300 quickly became frustrating, however, as I realized that I was facing a […]
