Collaborate Disseminate
Humans have loved looking up at the night sky for time immemorial, and that hasn’t stopped today. [MattHh] has taken this love to the next level with the Pi-lomar Miniature …read more Continue reading Pi-lomar Puts an Observatory in Your Hands
Today, there’s open source options for pretty much anything mainstream, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t still some niches out there that could benefit from the libre treatment. The CinePi …read more Continue reading CinePi Project Promises Open Source Movie Making
As digital photography has become so good, perhaps just too good, at capturing near-perfect pictures, some photographers have ventured back into the world of film. There they have found the …read more Continue reading A Non-Destructive Digital Back for a Classic Leica
The Raspberry Pi HQ camera module may not quite reach the giddy heights of a DSLR, but it has given experimenters access to a camera system which can equal the …read more Continue reading Raspberry Pi Camera Conversion Leads To Philosophical Question
The advent of the high-quality version of the Raspberry Pi camera has given experimenters a good-enough quality camera system that they can use it to create better devices than mere …read more Continue reading Pieca Is A Pi Camera With Some Very Nice Lenses
Over the last year or so, we’ve been checking in on the progress [Andrew Consroe] has been making with his incredible CNC scroll saw project. While we were already impressed …read more Continue reading Optical Sensor Keeps Eye On Wandering Saw Blade
Getting a closer look at the Moon isn’t particularly difficult; even an absolute beginner can point a cheap telescope towards our nearest celestial neighbor and get some impressive views. But if you’re looking to explore a bit farther, and especially …read more
Continue reading Explore the Cosmos with this DIY Digital Telescope
In 2020 when we carry an all-purpose computer and data terminal able to store our every thought and deed on a global computer network, it’s easy to forget that once upon a time we were excited by the simpler things. Take the camcorder for example, back in the 1990s the …read more
Continue reading A Retro Camcorder Upgraded as a Raspberry Pi HQ Camera
Bullet time became the hottest new cinema effect after it burst on the scene in The Matrix (1999). Back then, the cutting edge special effects required serious hardware and serious processing power to do the job. These days, of course, things have moved along somewhat. [Eric Paré] is no stranger …read more
Continue reading Bullet Time On A Budget With The Raspberry Pi
Ever since the high-quality camera for the Raspberry Pi was released a few months back it has been the center of attention for many hacks. In this quick build [Martin Mander] shows us how to make a servo-powered focusing mechanism entirely from LEGO.
The inspiration for this project came to …read more
Continue reading Bringing the Pi Camera into Focus with LEGO