For his latest project, Grad student and specialty camera builder Kevin Kadooka decided to go 100% homebrew, producing a camera that uses nothing from an existing camera. Instead, his handsome medium-format Lux camera relies on off-the-shelf electronics and mechanical parts and a body constructed of plastic panels produced by a 3D printer. Continue reading “Behold Lux: The 100% Do it Yourself, 3D-Printed Medium-Format Camera”
Whilst Apple’s iDevices are designed to require a relatively low requirement of vital ‘hidden-cost’ add-on peripherals — in part because of the vast amount of non-vital paraphernalia that Apple propagated as a culture of personalisation to express individualism in a milieu of iPhone ubiquity — they are designed to require an external speaker. The lack of maxed audio has been irritating Max Freeman of Geomagic Solutions for a while… Continue reading “Maxing iPad Loudness with 3D Printing”
We all remember having fun with old-fashioned hand-crank music boxes. Watching the needles plink over different heights of metal, watching as a combination of timing and shape somehow created a tune. While music boxes are not new, the freedom to create your own tune, and have it 3D printed into a music box, is. Continue reading “3D Printed Music Box: Create Your Own Tune With the Music Drop”
