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.
Using a custom rig with a fixed lens, a remote controlled helicopter rig, various articulated mounts and a Nokia N8 smartphone, an independent film crew captured an entire feature-length movie they hope will make it into theaters.
Our featured image from the MAKE Flickr pool this week is Pete Prodoehl’s lovely shot of his MakerGear Prusa Mendel printer frame. It looks like a piece of pricey Danish furniture! It was a hard choice, for me, between that and Rob Hopeless’s photograph of the transparent Venus de Milo bust he recently printed on his homemade stereolithography system.
Here are some cool things we saw in the CRAFT Flickr Pool this week: Little Cupcake Felt Gadget Sleeve, by suezybees Cookie Monster hat, by I’m Feelin’ Crafty More Tiny Toques, by katbaro Playing with the shape of the leaf…, by woolly fabulous pint_honeybadger3, by BreadnBadger (Warning: Clicking through the link may not be appropriate […]
Anytime a TV show runs ten seasons, you know they’re doing something right. Anytime a TV show runs ten seasons after starting out on an indie UHF station, with a shoestring budget, using props, puppets, and sets literally held together with duct tape and hot glue, well…fans know that Mystery Science Theater 3000 is in a class by itself.
What a difference a couple of years make. Back in 2009, you had to scrounge together a bunch of lenses and glue them to a jar lid if you wanted a smartphone lens carousel. Nowadays you’ve got options.
…if you happen to have a vehicle with about 300,000 units on the odometer. From Alan Parekh’s always-delightful Hacked Gadgets.
Bored with Instagram yet? How about building your own camera to capture lomographic imagery? Joe Pirela’s DigiLomo camera is one smart looking DIY digital camera built by repackaging the guts of a point-and-shoot into a larger (and nicer looking) walnut and aluminum body that accepts a SLR lens.
