DIY: Make a Fisheye Digital Camera for $20
Can’t afford to buy a fisheye lens which can cost you hundreds of dollars? The people of Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Center for Visualization & Virtual Environments University of Kentucky have done a paper with instructions to make your own digital fisheye cameras capable of both still and motion capture, either independent of a computer or under wired computer control, can be assembled for a total cost of less than $20 US.
DIY: Disposable Camera Flash Slave
Greg Lipscomb has built a camera flash slave using a photocell and a microcontroller for trigger and timing.
“Anyway, I decided I wanted to make an external slave. I thought about buying a slave peanut trigger. This is a little device that does exactly what I wanted to build. I would merely connect the flash switch to the peanut. I could not find one, so I decided to build my own.”
DIY: $10 Digital Camera
elephantstaircase.com has an article on how you can turn a ‘disposable ‘digital camera which normally costs you around 10 bucks into a camera that you can use over and over, just like a normal digital camera.
DIY: Cheap Digital Picture Frame
Want to save around 100-200 bucks on Digital Picture Frame? joedog86 has written a quite good instruction on how you can make your own Digital Picture Frame for less than $100.
“I basically made this as a birthday present for my girlfriend. Looking for an awesome gift idea? This is it! Total cost was under $100, and could be substantially less if you’re savvy.”
