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Autonomous Picture Taking Robot

Joe L — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 07:23:54 +0000

Learn how to make a free roaming picture taking robot.Â� Combine a cheap camera with a few servo motors and a control board to create your own surveillance robot.Â� It uses the servos to create a pan and tilt camera mechanism while the robot explores its environment.

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Incredible DIY Aerial Kite Photography

Joe L — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 22:34:44 +0000

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 1900’s and it’s grown rapidly becoming a popular hobby.

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How to: High Speed Photography using the Arduino

Joe L — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 23:00:18 +0000

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.Â� His photos can be seen below, and you can learn how to make your own with the full tutorial and project code.Â� Pick up some low priced lasers and other project supplies in our store.

Hack your Photos: 3 Nifty Ways

Joe L — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 19:03:42 +0000

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 Cartoonize: http://www.befunky.com/

Guard your Laptop with Electric Rings of Death

Joe L — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 01:41:11 +0000

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 photos above show the ZVS flyback supply driving a 4 stage CW multiplier. It is capable of 5 inch sparks but is shown here with half of that. These photos display how the rotating setup swings the sparks in a ring around the laptop, while maintaining a safe distance from my face.

Why stop at a laptop, why not guard your entire car?

Or use Electric Beams of Death to guard your home.

Follow this sequence to recreate the pictures. Read more about the project.

The rotating electrodes are turned on. The shot is done in darkness.
Trigger the 10 second camera exposure using a remote control. The indirect flash goes off and this provides a natural color background to give normal skin tones.
The orange filter is put in place (colored acrylic held in front of the
lens). Everything from now on will be orange ie sparks and computer screen,
complete with orange shadows and reflections.
Sparks are turned on and remain on for the duration of the 10 second
exposure during just over a full rotation of the electrodes.. The sparks, now
orange, will be added to the exposure.