From the MAKE Flickr photo pool ProdMod made this charger/light combo for use with Flip cameras using just 2 AA batteries with a DC step-up circuit – double handy! – ProdMod Video Light and Charger for Flip camcorder More: ProdMod LED Camera Light Kit v1.1 MintyBoost USB Charger Kit v2.0
Via BB, Kevin Kelly writes: This is Tanya Vlach’s new eyeball. She lost her real one in a car accident a few years ago. I met Tanya at a film festival recently. During our conversation she said she was looking for help in turning her artificial eye into a eye-cam. You know, a mini web […]
A big fan of stereoscopic imaging, Matti heavily modded a viewmaster – adding an Arduino board, accelerometer, bluetooth and some buttons. The result is an interactive animation viewer using color-based chromadepth technique for 3D – The Arduino sends the sensor data and the button states wirelessly via bluetooth to my computer. The information is parsed […]
Medix’s hard drive laser shutter via Hacked Gadgets.
MAKE author Steve Lodefink remade one of those cool n’ fancy vapor projection screens you’ve likely seen in used for special effect video display – If you’ve ever ridden the Pirates of the Caribbean ride at Disneyland, you will remember how, right before you hit the first drop, you are greeted with the ghostly image […]
We added a new section in MAKE a few volumes ago and I wanted to introduce it here… Here’s Charles the section editor – The projects in MAKE encourage us to transcend our default role as passive consumers. Armed with screwdrivers and soldering irons, we boldly go into basement workshops, creating new gadgets or ripping […]
Go Green! Special video effects are available to anyone with a cheap camcorder and $25 of software. Greenscreen is the most powerful of these, and is surprisingly easy to use. By Bill Barminski – MAKE 12 – Page 58. Would you like to make a video of yourself standing on the moon? There are two […]
