Eclectic junk from the four corners of the ‘Net. And pictures too!
You can never have enough projects, right? Well I think that’s true. Tonight I finished my tutorial on how to hollow out a light bulb and re-use it for other things like art projects and science stuff. So don’t throw out that dead light bulb, make it into a salt shaker or something…
Who says you need to buy a Nikon or a Canon or even a Minolta to own an SLR when you have cardboard and paste handy? Sure, it may lack a few creature comforts like shutter speeds faster than bulb or a F stops on the lens, but you don’t need those to take a nice photograph. I like the orange curved lever that is used to pull up the mirror before you open the shutter, very clever.
Uêba – Cardboard Reflex Camera
A device like this is so amazingly handy to have in your photo bag. With a few of these attached to a few flashes salvaged from disposable cameras you can totally light up whatever your photographing. I think I’ll try that and see what sort of effects I can get with this. I’m thinking four plus point lighting on a sub shoe string budget can be achieved with this.
This is a project to make a Slave Trigger for an electronic strobe unit. The Slave Trigger is plugged into the sync cord (PC Type) from a strobe unit and will flash the strobe when it "sees" another flash go off. An older 1970’s Epoxy cased slave trigger (AC Plug Style) was used as a guide in developing this new version. Thanks to input from some of my web friends we now use a photocell from a $1 solar powered calculator as the photo diode. This Project uses a SCR, Capacitor, Resistor, Photo Cell, an Radio Shack Adaptor Plug, and a small plastic box. The parts were found at a local electronic surplus store and the Dollar Store.
Now this is the sort of project I can sink my teeth into. What do you get when you cross a disposable camera flash with a bit of wire, and steel BB’s? A coil gun! Yeah… That’s the good stuff. Jeff provides plans and links to build your own weapon of choice. Have fun and be safe, if you can do the two at the same time. If not you can go as a pirate for next Halloween.
These are quite nice. An artist builds one of a kind lamps from old bottle, pipes and bit of antique brass. This should serve as an inspiration to anyone looking for a project.
[via Boing Boing]
A few years ago I messed around with those super small rockets called Micro Maxx from Quest. They were ok, but the low altitude (25 foot) flights didn’t make much of an impression on me. However, some people have gone farther than launching them in their back yards and have decided to build their own. Some of the designs are pretty darn cool.
Micro Maxx paper kits, print them out!
If your looking for an easy and fun project for the weekend and your not in an area that has large fields (like a crowded city) this is perfect fo you. I’m going to pick up some parts and start building some.
