Corbis Readymech paper pinhole cameras
Want to print out a pinhole camera that uses regular film? Corbis has free patterns and instructions on their site featuring several different designs.
Imaging
DIY projector mount and portable screen
Create Digital Motion reader Seej writes: I do a lot of projection installations, in unique locations, usually with about zero setup time. When I looked into buying a professional 10’x7′ “fast-fold” screen, I was blown away by how much they cost. Instead, I decided to design my own, using easy to find materials. The Challenge: […]
Handheld thermal imager
It’s not maker-made, and I don’t propose a remake – Fluke’s Ti25 Thermal Imager is just too future-cool not to mention. The device combines infrared and visible-light images – now you can simply glance/scan back into a room to see if you left the iron/oven/soldering-iron on. Needles to say it’s pricey – suppose I’ll wait […]
Pixel-lapse photography
> Steven his digital photo-art method – “Pixel-lapse” combines the temporal nature of long exposure photography and the precise organization of the digital matrix. By creating an image one pixel at a time, each part of the image shows different captured moments. In the end, each image not only has dimension but also gains duration […]
Candid bird cam
Bob writes – Your “Animals caught on tape” article reminded me of my project last year, where I put a webcam in a bird house and captured videos of the nest, the eggs, the babies, and feedings. At my web site, I have a page describing the construction of the bird house and the software […]
Animals – caught on tape!
Patrick shares results from his mammalian video exposé using motion activated video recording – Our 4-year old son left a piece of cheese out to see if there would be bite marks in the morning. Then we got more ambitious about tracking our visitors… 6:10am: this squirrel was so calm that 5 minutes of video […]
OS X overlapping gif screensaver hack
Bennett Williamson at FATLAB writes: The default Mac OS X (I’m on version 10.4.11) screensaver picture slideshow function can read an alpha channel in a .gif file. That is to say, as the slideshow plays your images, a .gif with an alpha channel will appear to be “on top” of the previous image, and as […]
