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Blasting Stuff With A High Speed Air Canon

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Alan Sailer likes to blow stuff up. And when I say blow stuff I mean the good old fashion way. With a canon, custom made air gap strobes and a dedicated controller.

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Blasting Stuff With A High Speed Air Canon

(kinda) Crowdsourcing Bullet Time Dancers

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It is amazing what you can do with a little vision, even if you are pretty tied by budgetary constraints. Nate Powers and his team of students pushed their budget, and skills to the edge to create a low end (though high value) dancers bullet time shots .

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Print Your Own Tilt-Shift Lens

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A few weeks back I wrote about what rapid prototyping is doing to the traditional photography industry (well, any industry for that matter).

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Print Your Own Tilt-Shift Lens

The Lightplot Is A Lighting Painting Robot Evolving From Lego NXT

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One of the more interesting things to see in this era (aside a healthy big mac) is an ongoing synergy between light painting and rapid prototyping platforms like arduino and NXT Lego sets. The Lightplot, created by Ben Cowell-Thomas, is a light painting robot that started as an NXT experiment and evolved into a huge project involving a massive robotic arm, a animation to movement software and a tiny LED .

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Fridgetip – Use Your House Keys For Better Audio And Fresh Food

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Today’s 60 seconds video is short and sweet.

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Fridgetip – Use Your House Keys For Better Audio And Fresh Food