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Make Digital Film Box Reminder Tabs – No Batteries Required – Using E-Paper Displays
Oct 22, 2025
David Prochnow
Chances are that you’ve experienced electronic paper or e-paper (also known as, e-ink) displays before you encountered this article. In fact, you might be reading…
ID your friends with a palm-sized DIY AI camera
Jan 7, 2025
David Prochnow
Welcome to the brave new world of Artificial Intelligence (AI) photography. What’s all of the hubbub about AI photography? Is it just another tool resting…
How to build your own laser-powered DIY shutter speed tester
Jun 4, 2024
Don Goodman-Wilson
My collection of analog cameras is in a state. Specifically, in the state of “I have no idea whether the shutter speeds on these things…
How to motorise a cheap camera slider without a 3D printer
Aug 25, 2023
John Aldred
This is a video that was posted to YouTube a while ago but doesn’t seem to have seen much traffic. It was posted by the…
How to test your camera’s shutter speed using lasers and an Arduino
Jul 20, 2023
John Aldred
At some point, many of us will have a camera that just doesn’t feel right when it comes to shutter speeds. Maybe we’re seeing flicker…
This is the worst digital camera in the world with a resolution of only 48 pixels and no lens
Oct 24, 2022
John Aldred
Digital camera sensors have come a very long way in the last few decades. Even just in the last 20 years, we’ve gone from the…
This 3D printed DIY teleprompter has a built-in screen and can be used anywhere
Jul 26, 2022
John Aldred
Anybody who’s ever had to sit (or stand) and do a spoken piece to camera will know the struggle of trying to learn and memorise…
How I built my Arduino-powered automatic pan-tilt head for shooting stitched panoramic landscapes
Mar 23, 2022
Don Simmons
Shooting multi-frame panorama photographs can be fun, and the resulting images can be striking. But once you get past a panorama that is, say, four…
This open-source DIY 6-axis motion control rig is almost entirely 3D printed
Nov 19, 2020
John Aldred
The only thing cooler than a 6-axis motion control rig is a DIY 6-axis motion control rig. And the only thing cooler than that is…
Make your own automatic 35mm film scanner using an Arduino Nano and Python
Sep 28, 2020
Seckin Sinan Isik
Getting started with Arduino Nano and Python is easy thanks to extensive online documentation and an increasing DIY culture. Waiting whilst flatbed scanners scan a…