Peter writes in – Matt Hallock has a how to for building a lo-fi fisheye camera lens for around $10 using supplies found at your local hardware store. Fisheye lenses are crazy cost prohibitive for most of us, but this method gets you 90 percent of the effect, plus a little Holga-esque unpredictability to boot!
The UFOCapture software records nighttime sky highlights via PC with attached vidcam. Quite handy for those alien/meteor enthusiasts who still have to hold down a dayjob – UFO@Home [via Boing Boing] In the Maker Shed: Astronomy Hacks
Wow, here are some screenshots of “Exposure” a free/fee app for iPhone 2.0 — GPS and geotag enthusiasts will love it, you tap “near me” and see all the photos that were taken… you guessed it, near you. I’m a few blocks or so from the World Trade Center area at the moment… via Daring […]
Best unknown feature of the new iPhone firmware… screenshots! Built-in Screen Capture Utility: With the iPhone 2.0 software installed, hold down the Home button and press the Lock button and your screen will flash–and an image of your phone’s screen gets saved to your Camera Roll’s images.
Micah made this really amazing laser scanner from a few scavenged hard drives and a Parallax Propeller chip. The initial results are amazing considering how fast the actuators have to be to crate an image. My latest tinkery hardware and embedded systems project is a homebrew laser scanner. You know, the kind you see at […]
Mark just wasn’t satisfied with 3D glasses on his SGI machine, so he adapted them to work with any video card with a VESA-compliant stereo port – Now in all, it’s not too complicated what I do here. The SGIs have around 10-12 volts on the stereo port, while (same connector, same pin-out) the VESA […]
Huh, so here’s a good use for entangled photons.. ghost-imaging via Wired. Investigators funded by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research are conducting research under the name of “ghost-imaging,” where a visual image of an object is created by means of light that has never interacted with the object. The new technology may result […]
