Cool Photography Hacks

Autonomous Picture Taking Robot

Autonomous Picture Taking Robot

Learn how to make a free roaming picture taking robot. Combine a cheap camera with a few servo motors and a control board to create your own surveillance robot. It uses the servos to create a pan and tilt camera mechanism while the robot...
Incredible DIY Aerial Kite Photography

Incredible DIY Aerial Kite Photography

The outstanding video above is a how to tutorial for DIY kite photography. Chris Benton, an experienced aerial photographer, guides us through his camera rigs, history, and expertise. People have been taking aerial photos like these since the early...
How to: High Speed Photography using the Arduino

How to: High Speed Photography using the Arduino

Using a laser and sensor to create an electronic trip wire, this high tech photographer used the Arduino programmer to capture high speed pictures of liquid droplets, creating this outstanding collection of photographs. His photos can be seen...
Hack your Photos: 3 Nifty Ways

Hack your Photos: 3 Nifty Ways

Using a few, awesome tools online you can create a new twist for your photos. Convert them entirely to text, funkify them, make a poster, and more! Photos to text: http://photo2text.com/ Posters: http://www.blockposters.com/ Funky...
Guard your Laptop with Electric Rings of Death

Guard your Laptop with Electric Rings of Death

Combine a high voltage electrode and a motor and you can create an electric force field around your laptop. Note that all these photos are real, no photoshop. The pictures are all single shots and effects are produced with long exposure. The...