This weekend at Maker Faire Instructables brought their laser cutter and was laser etching laptops, phones, and other things for free. My favorite is Alex Schlegel’s fractal-etched Vaio (source image included). If you had your gear etched, add a picture to the MAKE Flickr pool!
Today’s episode of BBtv has excerpts from Graffiti Research Lab: The Complete First Season. GRL are the controversial artists behind the wildly popular LED Throwies, featured in MAKE Volume 06 and all over blogspace, and the amazing L.A.S.E.R. tagging system. Graffiti Research Lab, the movie Related: Throwie mania on Make: Blog Graffiti Research Lab » […]
Cobbler writes in – I made this nifty little wide angle and fisheye camera lens adapter out of a door peephole and one of the world’s most versatile materials, PVC pipe.
These floating globes called “Bubble Bobbles” have an embedded tri-color LED that changes its color based on the tilt of the globe. Meant to be placed in a lake or a pool, every passing gust of wind or disturbance in the water causing a resulting color change. Bubble Bobble, [via]
Jay writes – I tied a disposable camera to a bench with a sign that read: Good afternoon, I attached this camera to the bench so you could take pictures. Seriously. So have fun. I’ll be back later this evening to pick it up. Love, Jay / The Plug When I retrieved the camera that […]
On today’s BBtv, Xeni talks with Marc Owens about his Avatar Machine, a camera rig that turns you into a gaming avatar in the real world. Howstuffworks details how the Avatar Machine is built, which as Owen says in the interview, is basically a camera tripod mounted on your back. Avatar Machine – Marc Owens’ […]
From the MAKE Flickr photo pool Dr.photon is exploring the world DIY video panoramics – […] a parabolic mirror would be ideal. However, I had a christmas ornament on hand and the software function I was using to unwrap the image was based on a sphere (polar distortion). as it turned out my camera is […]
