DIY

If you have old negatives or slides that you want to preserve digitally, you probably know that just throwing them on your flatbed scanner won't work. You need a bright light source that comes from behind the negative and the multi-function printer/scanner you use to print coupons is seriously lacking in that department. However, a new tutorial from Craft Magazine shows you how you can hack up a bit of silver cardboard, and get you film negatives onto your computer.

Have you ever wondered what it would take to build your own camera — from design up to a complete, working model? Members of a Japanese design group called kit da studio have done just that with a camera they've built called the KDS-POTO2. The design process is incredibly detailed, and it's an intensely interesting build. They start with notebooks full of possible designs and mechanisms for how to make what ends up being a very advanced final design.

Photographer and DIY geek Ziah Fogel has just announced a new Kickstarter project in order to raise funds for one of the most interesting pieces of kit we've heard of in a long time: the TriggerTrap. This Arduino powered universal camera trigger would be able to send signals to your camera using a wide array of sensors.