From the MAKE Flickr photo pool

Greenwithevil brought his flatbed scanner turned-camera to Burning Man and captured some intriguing images - Scanner Camera on Flickr

From the pages of MAKE:

MAKE:14 p.78 - Scanner Camera

Here's a clever cardboard iPhone rig by Cincinnati design student Kyle A Koch which keeps it at the right distance to photograph sheets of printer paper. Apparently Kyle and I share a propensity for losing hard copies of things. Via Core77.

The Ring Flash / Ring Light is a unique light source since it gives you a hard light but because the light comes from all around the lens the only shadow is a darkened halo around a subject, but the subject it self is uniformly lit.

Make your own Ring Flash

Read more about making a Super Cheap Umbrella Stand

• Atari PCB console [above, top-left]
• LED hula in action [above, top-right]
• Breadboarding … in 3D!! [above, bottom-left]
• 1-megabit cufflinks [above, bottom-right]

Here's some amazing video of the new "Draganflyer X6 UAV RC" helicopter that can be rigged up to shoot professional quality aerial video and take digital photographs.

DraganFly

Cenci Goepel and Jens Warnecke's Lightmark photo series is bit like a highly refined version of LED light pen projects we've covered here. The incorporation of picturesque scenery with silvery light-born objects seems to reference a feeling of alien presence in our world - beautiful work. - Lightmark [via Neatorama]

• Flight in multiple exposures[above top-left]
• Wind generator challenge @ MAKE:NYC [above top-right]
• Meatloaf man[above bottom-left]
• Catching up with TGIMBOEJ [above bottom-right]

Here's a fun online toy I found through Deep Fun- you paste in the url from an online image you like, and the software converts it into a kaleidoscope image - you can change the kaleidoscope image by clicking and dragging with your mouse. (that's my cat, Jamie)

Czech photographer Miroslav Tichý captures images using handmade cameras built from salvaged material - discarded wooden spools, elastics, eyeglass lenses, and cardboard tubing find new life as part of his imaging gear. The resulting work is a testament to the poetic value error, imprecision, and circumstance can add to art.

When asked about the theory behind his work, Tichy replied -

If you want to be famous, you have to do whatever you're doing worse than anyone else in the whole world.

Researchers from the University of Washington's Graphics and Imaging Laboratory are developing video enhancement software which utilizes data from related still images. Currently only for use with 'still-life' scenes, the process incorporates information from higher resolution photos and automatically maps it to the corresponding areas of the video in need of improvement - increasing resolution, dynamic range, ligthing, and even masking specified areas.

Unlike traditional visual effects software (e.g., After Effects, Shake, Boujou, etc), the system is completely automatic and no manual labor is required from the user. The major limitation of the work is that it can currently handle only videos of static scenes (i.e., videos shot with a moving camera but containing no moving objects in the scene). Efforts are being made to lift this restriction in future work.

- Using Photographs to Enhance Videos of a Static Scene [via Gizmodo]

Flickr user Nebarnix posted an awesome gallery of high-speed photo eye-candy -

High speed photography. If anyone has any requests I'd be happy to blow it up for you!

Most of these photos are taken with a special flash unit that uses a high voltage arc in air as the light source. The flash of light lasts only 500 nanoseconds!

High-Speed Photography Kit Version 4

• Building Benito [above, bottom-right]
• Software CV sequencer [above, bottom-left]
• DIY Channel cutting blade [above, top-right]
• Speaker cube [above, top-left]

When I shoot concerts, I often record audio off camera with a portable recorder. I needed a way to attach the recorder to the stand when I use a mic on top of a light stand. This bracket is made out of PVC pipe fitting, and will clamp onto the stand. If I extend the stand to get the mic 6' up, the recorder can still be lower so I can check settings easily.

Read more about the DIY: Stand clamp for portable recorder

• Modded knee brace [above, bottom-right]
• Results from the electric junk guitar workshop [above, bottom-left]
• Hot PCB lasering action
• DFW Synth DIY Meet up
• Big box o' techno [above, top-right]
• Catastrophic Cacophony Workshop
• DIY easel-workstation [above, top-left]

• ThingamaHat [above, top-left]
• Headphone-muffs [above, top-right]
• Remote-controlled ducks [above, bottom-left]
• Money-button [above, bottom-right]
• Vacuum tube earring

This video shows a site specific film called the "Image Mill" projected onto 81 individual grain silos that are each 30 meters tall. The film was shot in such a way so that the contours of the silos are integrated into the picture to create a more realistic image landscape. Watch the video and you will understand.

via Wooster Collective

Day 2 of 5 in 5 brought to life a periodic tote, tickets to a sunset, a year in pictures, balls of light. In an impromptu celebration of old-time computing we got earrings compatible with your PC, AsteriskFTP, and thank goodness there's finally BASIC for Twitter. Clink your glasses for a laser photo trigger, trip the family crest fantastic, snap a jacket, work some flash, and with today's guest star, compare the Olympic to the merely average.

The group is now 14 strong and with today's Guest Star Dennis Crowley, they did each project in a single day. Three more days to go! Check out the Etsy Video published yesterday by Guest Star Bre Pettis that includes FrankenFace.

Days: 1 2 3 4 5

• HTML Color Name Generator
• Dollars to buttons [above, top-left]
• rulers + tape +books = Rule Organ [above, top-right]
• Ikea kitchen hack: in-board bowl [above, bottom-left]
• Tori Amos in LEGO [above, bottom-right]

"CamTim" is yet another camera hack that allows any digital camera with a remote control to be used for time-lapse photography. It also allows for external trigger mode so that you can hook up a Zigbee module to it for instance and control it from far distances. The system uses a PIC16F84A and relays to trigger a solenoid which pushes the camera's remote button. More info on the build at the link below.

CamTim: Hacking a camera remote for time-lapse photography

This hack shows how to turn a Sony video camera into a motion detector to track animals in the wild and would then begin to record when it saw something moving. Although this feature is sometimes already built into video cameras, this maker decided to create her own using a simple relay circuit to control the power on the camera and the record button to trigger the filming. We also like the ghetto case that this thing resides in.

Sony Camera Hack

So this buddy of mine has a really cool 26" softbox (Wescott Apollo) that is unique in that it has an internal umbrella shaft and can be used with an ordinary lightstand and speedlight, without any additional hardware. So these softboxes are great, except they cost $140 USD so I set out to make something similar for $23 and it works like a champ! I also wanted something that looked at least sort-of professional, was collapsable and fully portable.

Learn how to make a Softbox from an umbrella

More:

How-To - Super softbox

Someone has created this fun Flickr Pool of photos of common (and not so common) objects that resemble the faces of robots.

Looks Like A Robot

• Automatic Cat Faucet [above, bottom-right]

• Former minivan makes new trailer

• Electric gongs [above, bottom-left]

• Aurora open-source music controller

• LEGO paper-cone record player [above, top-left]

• Gakken Electronics experimentor set [above, top-right]

• Indian beatmachine bending

• Maker's Quilt - first board

• DIY battery level indicator

• Giant connect four game board

• Demolished house kalimba
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  We pointed out this great Instructable on making LED light drawing pens a while back. Stuart and Lori have a really neat tutorial about light drawing on their site, LightDoodles. (I've always loved this picture of Picasso.)

  Light doodling or light drawing can be described as the simple act of capturing the trace of a narrow moving source of light using long exposure photography, long being defined as seconds or minutes. The moving light source will then appear in the finished picture as more then what actually exists and is truely a representation of time as well as space and movement.

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  Here's another beautiful photo essay by Marc Steinmetz - plastination by Gunther von Hagen. It's fascinating and somewhat disturbing - don't click through if you're squeamish. Here's a short explanation of the process.

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  If you decide to hang out indoors this week, take a look at this Florida State University gallery of phytochemical micrographs- micrographs are photographs taken through microscopes; phytochemicals are chemicals produced by plants.

  Capsaicin - This chili pepper-derived spice packs the wallop in your hot tamale, but it is also a digestive aid, a topical painkiller, and a potential cancer-fighting compound.

  I love this picture, it looks like some wonderful textile art.

  More:
  Velcro being pulled apart
  Build your own digital microscope
  Microscopy photo pool

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  The Glocal website has got the MAKE site pinned on this one: an open source, Arduino-powered, Altoids tin-encased digital photo hack. From the site:

  This Arduino-based hack lets you take pictures by triggering your camera's shutter on a time delay (every ten seconds, every 20, every ten minutes...), or by plain old sound: you make a noise and the camera takes a picture. We've been perfecting it and it is very sensitive- anything from a whisper to a loud sound will make it trigger the camera.

  Schematic and Arduino code included.

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  From the MAKE Flickr photo pool
  • Twitter Fail Whale [above, top-left]
  • Wind-powered string plucker
  • Hydrophone eyeball? [above, top-right]
  • Soldering floss [above, bottom-right]
  • Cigarette tin "boom" box[above, bottom-left]
  • PVC sprinkler = summertime fun
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  Sebastian Szyszka has a great write-up on how to photograph fireworks. He covers the delicate balance of ISO and aperture settings along with everything else you need to know. In the end, it seems to be fairly easy to do if you use a tripod and a decent camera.

  Read more about Photographing Fireworks

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