Collaborate Disseminate
[Ben Krasnow] has a knack for showing us what’s inside of things while they’re moving. This week’s Applied Science experiment has him making time-lapse X-ray videos of things. This plant’s …read more Continue reading Observing a Plant’s Vascular System with X-Ray Video
The eyes are windows into the mind, and this research into what jumping spiders look at and why required a clever device that performs eye tracking, but for jumping spiders. …read more Continue reading Eye-Tracking Device is a Tiny Movie Theatre for Jumping Spiders
The OAK-D is an open-source, full-color depth sensing camera with embedded AI capabilities, and there is now a crowdfunding campaign for a newer, lighter version called the OAK-D Lite. The …read more Continue reading OAK-D Depth Sensing AI Camera Gets Smaller and Lighter
If you’ve got old family photos on slides there’s an excellent chance you’ve considered digitizing them at one point or another, but perhaps didn’t know the best way of going …read more Continue reading 3D Printed Adapter Puts Slides in their Best Light
Don’t blame us for the title. [CCrome] admits it may well be the cheapest and worst IR camera available. The concept is surprisingly simple. Mount a cheap Harbor Freight non-contact …read more Continue reading World’s Cheapest and Possibly Worst IR Camera
If you’ve ever tried to document a project on your workbench with photos or videos, you know the challenge of constantly moving tripods to get the right shot. [Mechanistic] is …read more Continue reading Mini Camera Crane For Your Workbench
While browsing through an antiques shop, [Nick Morganti] came across a Kodak slide projector with an absolutely massive lens hanging off the front. Nearly a foot long and with a …read more Continue reading Printed Adapter Puts Vintage Lens Back to Work
Stop motion animation is notoriously difficult to pull off well, in large part because it’s a mind-numbingly slow process. Each frame in the final video is a separate photograph, and …read more Continue reading Mastering Stop Motion through Machine Learning
While the concept might seem quaint to us today, microfiche was once a very compelling way to store and distribute documents. By optically shrinking them down to just a few …read more Continue reading Automatic Microfiche Scanner Digitizes Docs
It sure sounds like “laser speckle imaging” is the sort of thing you’d need grant money to experiment with, but as [anfractuosity] recently demonstrated, you can get some very impressive …read more Continue reading DIY Laser Speckle Imaging Uncovers Hidden Details