Ed. note: Senior Editor
of MAKE magazine Phil
Torrone joins us to celebrate more modern-day MacGyvers as we
continue DIY week
at Lifehacker. Today's maker: entrepreneur and self-taught computer
chip designer Jeri
Ellsworth.
Pictured above, MacGyver of the Day: Jeri Ellsworth - Electronics hacker, chip maker, race car builder, pin ball machine maker, blowing-stuff-up'er...</...
If you'd like to experiment with studio flash configurations but you're short on the space or money to buy heavy-duty flash stands, this video tutorial details how to make portable flash stands using lightweight tent poles.
The design relies on sturdy but lightweight tent poles to provide support for your flashes and/or flashes with a soft box. The creator of the design, Peter Karlsson, put together two videos demonstrating first how the stand functions and then how it is constructed:
Ed. note: Senior Editor of MAKE magazine Phil Torrone joins us to celebrate more modern-day MacGyvers as we continue DIY week at Lifehacker. Today's makers: Christy Canida and Eric Wilhelm, the DIY gurus behind the much-loved Instructables.
It's hard to describe Instructables. It's usually called...
Ed. note: Senior Editor of MAKE magazine Phil Torrone joins us to celebrate a few modern-day MacGyvers as we continue DIY week at Lifehacker. Today's maker(s): EVIL MAD SCIENTIST LABORATORIES, the dynamic duo Lenore M. Edman and Windell H. Oskay.
Pictured above: A bar bot, made with an open source hardware gaming kit and hacked breast pumps bought off eBay. It doesn't get bett...
If you want to see what you're actually framing when you turn your camera around for a self portrait, this cheap and simple hack will have you composing better photos in no time.
Some camera phones and small cameras have a little convex mirror attached to the front the facilitate self-portraits, and the Dual View TL220 even has a second screen built into the front so you can see a live feed of what the lens sees. Over at Instructables NoahW already had a perfectly good camera that he wasn't about to replace over a lack of mirr...
Senior Editor of MAKE magazine Phil Torrone joins us to celebrate more modern-day MacGyvers as we continue DIY week at Lifehacker. Today he celebrates mischief maker and non-lethal weapons engineer (her flashlight can make you throw up) Limor "Ladyada" Fried.