I got an email from the boys over at Hacked Gadgets this morning about some horrendous things being done over at Wicked lasers. The laser guys have decided to do a little modding of a brand spanking new Blu-Ray equipped DVD player. They ripped out the laser diode assembly and placed it in an easy to abuse aluminum housing, just the right size to take to parties, shopping, and trade shows, etc. The purple beam (405nM at 23 mW) is bound to make lasting impressions with whomever you blind, er, I mean show it to…
Category: Hacked
DIY Cintiq LED Drawing Pad
Yeah, so why should you buy high tech toys when you can build your own? This is a very sweet project I hope to see other people try this as well.
"This is hybrid screen/graphics tablet which makes me drool. The price however makes me weep, £2000ish for the 20" version. They also do a thing called the PL at 17" for a more reasonable £500ish. Occasionally they appear on the site in their bargain basement ex-demo section. Still hard for me to justify though.
Then I had one of those "spang" moments. None of the tech involved is new and all is readily available second hand, it’s just a matter of putting it together. My Wacom at work will happily operate with the stylus off the surface, after that it’s just an LCD screen, right? Anyhow where’s the fun in just buying something?
Experiment – what depth does a tablet work to? Stack of paper says 9mm before accuracy starts to suffer noticeably. An LCD with an EL film backlight has to be thinner than that.
So here’s the challenge, What is the least amount of money I can build a Cintiq style device for?
[via MAKE]
Easy 35mm Pinhole Camera
Take one cheap fixed focus single shutter speed camera and some thin brass and you too can build a pinhole camera. He has a nice bit on how to accurately measure the pinhole to deduce the aperture so you can make good exposures.
Abusing Amazon Images
A guy named Nat Gertler discovered that the images on Amazon could be manipulated by feeding their servers parameters in the images URL. He’s put together a nice little FAQ on what does what. This is definitely going to go into the ‘to be used for evil’ category.
[via presurfer]
Frankenstein Panoramic Camera
Take an old Nimslo 3D camera and mate it with the lenses off a twin lens reflex and you get one hell of a funky looking camera. Each frame is two regular 35mm frames wide, go through the photo set and see the results.
DIY – Breakfast Styrofoam Glider
After you’ve gorged yourself on a fast food breakfast grab a hobby knife and get cutting! Go build this glider and run off your breakfast in the park. It’s easy, fun, and it recycles something that would normally be chucked in the trash.