DIY
How to cut your own custom case foam for camera and audio gear storage
Sep 6, 2022
John Aldred
When you need to travel with gear that you want to keep safe, it can be a pain. Sure, you can just throw a bunch…
This compact mini matte box is 3D printable at home and holds 4×5.65″ cinema filters
Sep 2, 2022
John Aldred
There are so many mini matte boxes out there on the market these days that it can be difficult to decide which to get. I…
The Pikon is a 3D printed interchangeable lens Raspberry Pi camera with a mirrorless camera form factor
Aug 31, 2022
John Aldred
You know, it’s funny. I just want from saying how there are hardly any Pi 3 portable cameras out there that make use of the…
Slidee is probably the cheapeast non-motorised automatic DIY camera slider you can make yourself
Aug 26, 2022
John Aldred
This is a pretty novel idea for a camera slider, called Slidee from maker Shivam Dehinwal. It has no motors, no Bluetooth, no electronics at…
The “Pi Cam” is a 12-megapixel, 3D printed, Raspberry Pi-powered camera you can control from anywhere
Aug 26, 2022
John Aldred
I knew we’d see a smaller interchangeable lens Raspberry Pi-powered camera than the Paparazzo at some point. This one’s a little different, though. Instead of…
This 3D printed 163mm f/2.5 lens with built-in aperture and focus adjustments can be made for less than $15
Aug 23, 2022
John Aldred
When it comes to 3D printed lenses, they usually suffer from some limitations that manufactured lenses do not. Two of those limitations specifically are the…
This DIY e-paper display plays movies in ultra slow motion and would take years to play one back completely
Aug 22, 2022
John Aldred
There seems to be a weird obsession with super slow movie players lately. I’ve seen a few of them come scroll up my screen lately,…
The “Edelclone” is a 4-axis DIY camera slider that used to be a 3D printer and you can make one, too
Aug 19, 2022
John Aldred
Some of you might remember DSLR DIY CNC from last year’s post about those neat 3D printed custom lens caps. This have been pretty quiet…
Make this simple DIY lens from an old disposable camera
Aug 16, 2022
Dunja Đuđić
Raise your hand if you still have that old 35mm film point-and-shoot somewhere around the house. If you’d like to give it a new life,…
The View-Remaster is a digitising scanner for old View-Master reels to watch them on modern tech
Aug 11, 2022
John Aldred
I’ve spoken about the View-Master here on DIYP before. In fact, as recently as the Kandao QooCam EGO review I posted a few weeks ago….