On his wesbite, Mawoca, Frank shows us how to make a tabletop softbox, which can help photographers – as well as crafters – take pictures of their smaller work in the best possible light. Frank uses his softbox to take food photos for his wife. He paid about $30 for parts, and the results are […]
Apparently it’s a meme. Who knew? Flickr blog round-up spotted by our own Lish Dorset over at CRAFT.
YaNiS EOS is a free app, currently in beta, written by “Manis,” a physics student at the University of Luxembourg. The hardware stack consists of an Arduino, a USB host shield, and an SPP-compatible Bluetooth module.
Highlights from this week’s MAKE Flickr pool roundup include some lovely long-exposure double-pendulum light painting, a beautifully-built and -shot cigar-box guitar, and an awesome WWII-era GE searchlight stabbing into the night sky with its 800,000,000 candela beam. Check ’em out.
Here are some cool things we saw in the CRAFT Flickr Pool this week: Tiny Tiny Tardis, by Giant Eye Robot, by michelleness Crocheted Aardvark, by planetjune WIP Anarchy, by Recycled by Hyena Zinnia Rag Rug, by roses&pearls
The Flickr blog posted a great roundup of favorite Post-It Note-created Space Invaders in the workplace. I love the top photo from Flickr member Peter Norby and the response from the office building across the street (below), posted by Kevin Collins. Related: Office Supply Model Making
If I may wax pedantic for a moment, here’s a rather striking example of the remarkable creativity that can result from radically limiting one’s options. “What is the coolest thing I make using all the myriad resources available in the world?” may be a stultifying proposition, but picking something ready to hand (“What is the coolest thing I can make from just this pile of paperclips?”) is a more manageable and, in my opinion, often a more interesting and enjoyable process.
