Photography

Teeny Tiny DSLR Camera Replicas

The geniuses at Photojojo (who brought you the awesome camera lens coffee mug) have come up with another brilliantly fun photography gift. These tiny replica DSLR cameras come complete with interchangeable lenses. This rare and tiny gem is a superbly detailed and a very real-looking 1/6 scale model of your own life-sized DSLR with every […]

Make: Projects – Ball-in-cage alarm switch

Make: Projects – Ball-in-cage alarm switch

I’ve been looking for an excuse to build one of these clever tamper-detecting switches for a long time. When a mystery critter recently started raiding the fresh catnip I grow outside as a treat for my indoors-only cat, I saw my opportunity. Sure, I could’ve bought or borrowed a commercial trail camera, or hacked a PIR motion detector circuit, or set up an IR webcam with software-level motion detection, but I’ve long been charmed by the simple low-tech design of the ball-in-cage switch.

Coilgun projectile photography

Coilgun projectile photography

Lex Augusteijn‘s high speed photographs are taken at the (relatively) glacially slow shutter speed of 1/10th of a second. By rights the bullet shouldn’t even be in the frame. He controls the camera, flash, and gun with a laptop, giving him great results with a relatively slow speed setup. Lex described the process on Digital […]