Hacks

Panoramic photos in Linux

If you plan your panoramic shot sequences just a bit, there are some great Open Source tools that will help you to stitch the photos together into a single panoramic image. Here’s a great tutorial on using Hugin and Autopano in Ubuntu to automate the alignment, correct for lens distortion at the seams, and adjust […]

Safety alarm clock

Safety alarm clock

Instructables user dylan2106 writes: I often find getting out of bed in the morning a bit tricky. When i have somewhere to be at a certain time, i get up pretty reliable. However when I want to get up it always seems that I manage to turn off my alarm clock before fully waking up. […]

HOWTO – make an MP3 decoder

It’s funny how you can use a technology countless times and the knowledge of how it works can still rank somewhere between very little and zero. In the spirit of taking things apart and in the interest of getting to know everybody’s favorite media format in more intimate detail, Björn Edström dissected the MP3 format […]

Lenticular image tool

Lenticular image tool

In response to yesterday’s post about creating lenticular images by splicing two photos together, MAKE reader Benedikt Seidl sent us a utility that makes the slightly tedious job a bit easier. Some years ago i made a php-script for Lenticular images. You can also make one Lenticular image from three pictures and choose how many […]