DIY Cardboard Hasselblad Pinhole Camera
Check out this Hasselblad pinhole camera from Kelly Angood. It accepts 120 film and looks looks a little less conspicuous than an oatmeal container.
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DIY Scanning Electron Microscope
Check out the scanning electron microscope Ben Krasnow made. It’s a fine example of some of the higher-end DIY lab equipment starting to show up in garages and hackerspaces around the world.
Strobe-animated LED Phenakistoscope
In response to last week’s Codebox column on building 3D zoetropes, Lorelei Pepi posted a link to this most awesome strobe-animated phenakistoscope she built. Thanks, Lorelei! LED Strobe Animation Device More: Build a Phenakistoscope (Make: Projects) From MAKE magazine: Want to know how to build an auto-phenakistoscope? How about a laser light show in a […]
Kinect + Fancy Spherical Display = Giant Movement-Tracking Eyeball
From UK web design firm The Technology Studio. The spherical display is (a reportedly very expensive) commercial device called a PufferSphere. That it’s the Eye of Sauron is a nice touch. There’s also a video with a more, ah, “normal” looking giant eyeball embedded below. [via Hack a Day]
3D Volumetric Fog Display
3D volumetric displays are a lot like jetpacks. They’re both science fiction inspired technologies that are technically feasible, yet never quite make it to the practicable stage. Even though these technologies are just out of reach, every once in a while you’ll see a demo that advances the state of the art enough to keep you going. Check out this demo from researchers at Osaka University, where they’ve created a 3D volumetric display using directed fog and multiple projectors.
How-To: DSLR Pinhole Photography
We’ve featured our fair share of pinhole photography projects here at MAKE, and it’s no wonder. As complicated as cameras have become, it seems amazing that photos can be taken with something as simple as a tiny hole in a shoe box. But if you still yearn for all the creature comforts that a modern-day […]
Making a Laser-cut Zoetrope with Processing and Kinect
This codebox shows you how to create a physical zoetrope using Processing, a Kinect, and a laser cutter. The sketch will load in a movie recorded from the Kinect’s depth camera, use the Processing OpenCV library to turn that movie into a series of outlines, and save the outlines out in vector form as a […]
