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November 26, 2008
Wired makes a scannercam
On Wired's How-to Wiki, they decided to try their hand at building Mike Golembewski's Scanner Camera project, featured in MAKE Volume 14 and in the Sept 19th episode of Make: Weekend Project (see both below). Charlie Sorrel, author of the piece, did what looks like a nice job with the build, but the results look like something from a questionable episode of Ghost Hunters (if that's not redundant).
We asked Kip Kay of Weekend Projects for any tips he can offer Charlie:
Here is what I discovered about focusing. You have to really play with the focusing elements and the distance to the object. I got some pretty good results as seen in the video from about 4 feet away. But the results were nothing like what the original author, Mike Golembewski achieved. I think he had an actual lens on his rather than a magnifying glass for the pictures in the article. (He did mention he had built a better one)Before taping the camera to the scanner, you should tape on a piece of
tracing paper over the back which allows you to see the image and get it
focused properly.
Wired's How-To Wiki: Make a Scanner Camera
More:
Weekend Project: Scanner Camera
Weekend Project: Scanner Camera (PDF)
Mod a flatbed scanner to take photos that decontruct time and motion with wild results!
Thanks go to Mike Golembewski for the original article in Make Volume 14
View the PDF
Scanner cam portraits at American Maker
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Nov 26, 2008 03:10 PM
DIY Projects, Imaging, Remake |
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November 24, 2008
The Strobovj musically synched stroboscope
Gijs Gieskes' experiements with sound and light continue with the animated Strobovj synched to Gameboy LSDJ sequencer clock signal. Features include -
Very cool - the animated camera is an unusual and welcome feature. Peter Kirn explains more over @ CDM - Stroboscope Creation Animates Sequences
- The left knob sets the speed for the rotating plate.
- The strobe frequency, and the bike lamps light are set in sequence, recorded with the knob with the two push buttons below it.
- The cameras pan tilt servos, can be recorded in sequence, with the two knobs and the toggle switch below them.
- The next toggle switch sets the sequencer to 3/4 or 4/4.
- And the next toggle switch sets the sequencer to 32 or 64 or 128 steps if 4/4 is selected. Or 24 or 48 or 96 if 3/4 is selected.
More:
Phonographantasmascope
Posted by Collin Cunningham |
Nov 24, 2008 03:00 PM
Imaging, Music |
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November 22, 2008
Perspectives - interviews without words
Perspectives, interviews with all the dialog removed via Waxy.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Nov 22, 2008 12:00 AM
Arts, Imaging |
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November 20, 2008
LIFE photo archive - through a maker lens
The LIFE photo archive hosted by Google has a ton of lovely gems, here are a few I found that I really liked - all through a "MAKE" filter...
The contents assiting the Atomic Energy chemistry set.
Location: US
Date taken: September 1948
Photographer: Martha Holmes
Science As A Party Game
Author Kenneth Swezey (L) blowing pinch of cornstarch into candle flame to show how dust carried in the air can explode & destroy factories or coal mines as fans watch this experiment fr. his new bk. AFTER-DINNER SCIENCE.
Location: US
Date taken: October 1948
Photographer: George Silk
Science Fair.
Location: Cleveland, OH, US
Date taken: March 1958
Photographer: Andreas Feininger
A woman tool maker assembling a Buffalo machine gun.
Location: US
Date taken: 1943
Photographer: Wallace Kirkland
Chair maker working in shop.
Location: Damascus, Syria
Date taken: 1943
Photographer: John Phillips
Sixth grade science teacher Mildred Vance teaching a TV class.
Location: Hagerstown, MD, US
Date taken: November 1956
Photographer: Peter Stackpole
Leaping rubber explosively created from butadiene gas in bottle as demonstrated by M.I.T.'s Dr. A. Morton.
Location: US
Date taken: 1952
Photographer: W. Eugene Smith
Jr. Science Convention
Date taken: May 05, 1950
Photographer: Bernard Hoffman
Hopkins Science Show
Date taken: February 1952
Photographer: Mark Kauffman
Students conducting experiments in chemistry class at the Montevideo Highshool.
Location: Montevideo, Uruguay
Date taken: 1941
Photographer: Hart Preston
Life like models for use in science and health lectures manufactured at Cologne Health Museum.
Location: Cologne, Germany
Date taken: February 1955
Photographer: Ralph Crane
Folk singer John Jacob Niles (R) and cabinet maker Harry Mefford giving finishing touches to a new dulcimer. It will not be ready to play until it has "hung" for two or three years.
Location: Lexington, KY, US
Date taken: March 1943
Photographer: Alfred Eisenstaedt
Pirate robot in a new Disneyland ride called "Pirates of the Caribbean."
Location: CA, US
Date taken: 1967
Photographer: Ralph Crane
Fresno's Sunnyside Bowl-Bowling Alley.
Location: Fresno, CA, US
Date taken: 1961
Photographer: J. R. Eyerman
Cal. Tech chemistry professor, Dr. Linus Pauling, with his mineral collection.
Location: CA, US
Date taken: 1954
Photographer: J. R. Eyerman
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Nov 20, 2008 11:00 AM
Imaging, Retro |
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How to make water bounce
How to make water bounce from Edison's desk. Using a high-speed camera setup in the lab, GE scientists captured details of water droplets dancing on amazing superhydrophobic surfaces developed in GE Global Research's Nanotechnology lab. Tao writes -
Hello everyone, I have some exciting videos that I want to share with you! Using a high-speed camera setup in the lab, we can finally capture the details of the water dancing on these amazing superhydrophobic surfaces. We discovered that even when the surfaces had the same contact angle for stationary water droplets, their ability to resist the wetting of impacting droplets could be totally different. In the following three videos, the contact angles of a stationary droplet on all three surfaces are ~150 degree. When an impacting droplet (with the same impact speed) hits on the surfaces, the droplet can either stay on the surface.
Look at the way the water droplet spreads, recoils, breaks into satellite droplets, and completely lifts off... that's what we really want for an impacting-droplet resistant surface! You might wonder what we can do with a cool thing like this? Imagine applications that involve high speed water droplets, such as wind turbine blade, airplane wing, or even just your car in motion. These are just a couple of the exciting possibilities that we are looking at.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Nov 20, 2008 08:00 AM
Imaging, Science |
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What's inside a Canon 17-85 lens?
What's inside a Canon 17-85 lens? All of this!
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Nov 20, 2008 12:00 AM
Gadgets, Imaging |
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November 19, 2008
30 incredible satellite images...
30 incredible satellite images - this one is my favorite...
Garden City, Kansas, USA - Home to the largest zoological facility in Kansas, Garden City is known for its depiction in Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood.The croplands surrounding the city are irrigated by a vast underground aquifer, creating bands of bright red healthy vegetation that dot the image.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Nov 19, 2008 05:00 AM
Arts, Imaging |
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November 18, 2008
Shirts from 3D models
Check out these shirts made from 3D models using an unfolding-polygon method similar to what product designers use when constructing paper models. Via Fashioning Technology.
Posted by Becky Stern |
Nov 18, 2008 08:18 PM
Arts, Computers, Crafts, Imaging, Paper Crafts, Wearables |
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November 13, 2008
Light + charger for flip cams
From the MAKE Flickr photo pool
ProdMod made this charger/light combo for use with Flip cameras using just 2 AA batteries with a DC step-up circuit - double handy! - ProdMod Video Light and Charger for Flip camcorder
More:
ProdMod LED Camera Light Kit v1.1
MintyBoost USB Charger Kit v2.0
Posted by Collin Cunningham |
Nov 13, 2008 02:00 PM
Imaging, Maker Shed Store |
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November 12, 2008
Help make a webcam eye
Via BB, Kevin Kelly writes:
This is Tanya Vlach's new eyeball. She lost her real one in a car accident a few years ago. I met Tanya at a film festival recently. During our conversation she said she was looking for help in turning her artificial eye into a eye-cam. You know, a mini web cam inside an eyeball. It would capture live video and stream it to a memory somewhere and also perhaps eventually assist her own vision in real time. She confessed that she was not technologically adept enough to hack it on her own.
Posted by Becky Stern |
Nov 12, 2008 07:00 PM
DIY Projects, Imaging, Something I want to learn to do... |
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Chromadepth stereo viewer
A big fan of stereoscopic imaging, Matti heavily modded a viewmaster - adding an Arduino board, accelerometer, bluetooth and some buttons. The result is an interactive animation viewer using color-based chromadepth technique for 3D -
The Arduino sends the sensor data and the button states wirelessly via bluetooth to my computer. The information is parsed in Max/MSP, which in turn sends the data as OSC packets to Animata (my favourite software at the moment). Animata then animates everything in real-time and handles the hiding/revealing of different layers.Definitely a unique functionality, the demonstration video sheds some light -
Read on for more details - Mickey Mann
Posted by Collin Cunningham |
Nov 12, 2008 06:00 AM
Arduino, Imaging |
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November 9, 2008
Hard drive laser shutter
Medix's hard drive laser shutter via Hacked Gadgets.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Nov 9, 2008 01:00 AM
DIY Projects, Electronics, Imaging |
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November 6, 2008
DIY Fog Screen
MAKE author Steve Lodefink remade one of those cool n' fancy vapor projection screens you've likely seen in used for special effect video display -
If you’ve ever ridden the Pirates of the Caribbean ride at Disneyland, you will remember how, right before you hit the first drop, you are greeted with the ghostly image of the tentacle-faced Davey Jones creature warning you that “dead men tell no tales”. I certainly did.Well, it looks pretty impressive from here! Head over to Finkbuilt to see how it's done - DIY Fog Screen
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I have no idea how the commercial fog screen makes those glass-smooth sheets of air, but all I could think of was to shoot the air through some drinking straws. I made a little box-jig and hot-glued up some bricks of 2 inch straw sections. I then chained those bricks together into long vents. It does straighten out the airflow quite a bit, but certainly does not produce a laminar flow.
Posted by Collin Cunningham |
Nov 6, 2008 06:00 AM
Imaging |
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November 3, 2008
UPLOAD: Go green! Special video effects are available to anyone with a cheap camcorder and $25 of software
Go Green! Special video effects are available to anyone with a cheap camcorder and $25 of software. Greenscreen is the most powerful of these, and is surprisingly easy to use. By Bill Barminski - MAKE 12 - Page 58.
Would you like to make a video of yourself standing on the moon? There are two ways to do it. You can build a rocket and fly there — expensive, not to mention dangerous. Or you can use a greenscreen to make it look as if you are there. Yes, a greenscreen. I hope I won’t be shattering too many illusions when I tell you that this is how they did a lot of that cool stuff in Star Wars. They placed an actor in front of a greenscreen and filmed the scene while he pretended to fight a giant space squid. A technique called chroma keying was then used to remove the green color, allowing a new piece of video to be placed behind the actor.
This is called a composite shot, and the process is called keying. In the past you needed high-end software costing hundreds if not thousands of dollars, but today you can do it for $25 plus some cheap paint and lights.
But just let me issue a word of caution: greenscreening can be tricky. There are many variables that can affect the outcome. Even professional filmmakers run into unexpected problems from time to time.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Nov 3, 2008 10:00 AM
Computers, DIY Projects, Imaging, Online |
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UPLOAD: Opening the door to digital arts and crafts - we want your ideas!
We added a new section in MAKE a few volumes ago and I wanted to introduce it here... Here's Charles the section editor -
The projects in MAKE encourage us to transcend our default role as passive consumers. Armed with screwdrivers and soldering irons, we boldly go into basement workshops, creating new gadgets or ripping open old ones, sometimes achieving mixed results but always enjoying ourselves.Earlier this year, it occurred to me that the magazine could extend its interests from the physical world into an area that I think of as "digital arts and crafts": photographs, videos, music, text, computer code, and animations. The snag is that the software involved is increasingly diverse and complex. Almost anyone knows how to use a hammer, but how many of us have the time and patience to enhance a video with Adobe After Effects -- and retrain ourselves each time an upgrade is published?
Numerous magazines are dedicated to specialty tasks such as photo retouching or sound synthesis, but what I want is a broader view of the whole digital-arts spectrum, featuring small-scale, specific projects that will be fun, quick, and easy to complete.
Because I was unable to find such an overview, I was excited by the opportunity to assemble it in this new section. Under the broad title of Upload (meaning anything digital that can be uploaded via email or to web pages) you'll find projects ranging from chroma key video to infrared photography to online book publishing. In the future I hope this section continues on a regular basis -- but this, of course, will depend on you. Do you have a new and clever application of a digital tool, to achieve an unexpectedly creative product? Be sure to let me know. Anyone interested in contributing should send a short summary of his or her idea to me at platt@makezine.com.
--Charles Platt, Upload Section Editor
And, here are some of the article to check out...
As a special treat we've published one of the articles here on the MAKE blog - Go Green! Greenscreen effects are available to anyone with a camcorder and $25 of software. By Bill Barminski. You can view it here or in your digital edition (subscribers).
Looking at the Low End by Richard Kadrey. Infrared photography reveals a world invisible to the naked eye. MAKE 12 Page 50.
Book Yourself by Kevin Kelly. Innovative options enable you to publish your own text and pictures. MAKE 12 Page 50.
Seeing Red by Charles Platt. Shifting the spectrum can transform a landscape and create dramatic artistic effects. MAKE 12 Page 50.
Go Green! by Bill Barminski. Special video effects are available to anyone with a cheap camcorder and $25 of software. Greenscreen is the most powerful of these. MAKE 12 Page 50.
Quick Bits by Mark Frauenfelder, Charles Platt. Tips and tools for digital diversions. MAKE 12 Page 50.
The Family Photo Archive by Brian O'Heir. Use simple, powerful tools to rescue your photos from stored obscurity and turn them into a DVD slideshow. MAKE 12 Page 50.
Gnarly CAs: Cellular Automata for Pattern Creation by Rudy Rucker. Autonomous software bots can create complex, colorful digital patterns. You just have to tell them what to do. MAKE 12 Page 50.
Remake Your Own Hollywood Movie by Richard Kadrey. Dissatisfied with the director's cut? Direct it yourself! MAKE 12 Page 50.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Nov 3, 2008 09:59 AM
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October 24, 2008
Lamps transform to fit their natural habitat
These organic-shaped lamp sculptures by artist Pieke Bergmans are made with a unique mechanical process she developed that can be endlessly repeated to create the perfect result. Check out the link to her site below which details this process with some amazing photo essays.
Posted by Jonah Brucker-Cohen |
Oct 24, 2008 04:00 AM
Arts, Imaging, Made On Earth |
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October 22, 2008
DIY Homebrew Outdoor Webcam
Jerry shares his strategy for weather-proofing a webcam for use on his balcony. Nice video documentation - one might consider using some silicone to seal up those cable ports. You can see the results of his rig on his site.
More:
DIY $27 Outdoor Webcam Enclosure
Posted by Collin Cunningham |
Oct 22, 2008 03:00 PM
Imaging |
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October 21, 2008
Scanner cam portraits at American Maker
At the Austin Maker Faire, Mister Jalopy was telling me about the scanner camera Stephen Miller brought and set up at last month's American Maker event. Here's the Flickr set of the portraits he took.
American Maker Fair Flickr set [Thanks, Mister J!]
More:
- Building a "scanner" camera
- Scanner Camera
- Weekend Project: Scanner Camera >
- http://makezine.com/american/
Posted by Gareth Branwyn |
Oct 21, 2008 10:50 AM
Imaging, Maker Faire |
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October 13, 2008
Cat-leidoscope
Matt Mets made this cat-leidoscope out of three wall mirrors from IKEA and used it to take pictures of his cat. I can't think of a better way to spend a Monday evening.
More:
- DIY kaleidoscope
- Kaleidoscope your photos
- DIY Camera kaleidoscope
- HOW TO - Make your own kaleidoscope
- Simple Laser Kaleidoscope
Recycled Kaleidoscope MAKE: 14: Optics, Page 57 - Subscribers--read this article now in your digital edition
Posted by Becky Stern |
Oct 13, 2008 07:00 PM
Imaging |
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The Sun - Amazing photos
21 of the most amazing photos you'll ever see of the Sun @ Boston.com...
The Sun is now in the quietest phase of its 11-year activity cycle, the solar minumum - in fact, it has been unusually quiet this year - with over 200 days so far with no observed sunspots. The solar wind has also dropped to its lowest levels in 50 years. Scientists are unsure of the significance of this unusual calm, but are continually monitoring our closest star with an array of telescopes and satellites. Seen below are some recent images of the Sun in more active times.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Oct 13, 2008 10:15 AM
Imaging, Science |
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