02 JANUARY 2010
These were taken using the full Bowens studio kit to light the item using softboxes and light the background with separate lights to give a more even light over the items.
Below are some new samples of what we can do with...
30 DECEMBER 2009
After looking at various ways to show stock items in a better format for our ecommerce sites we thought it would be good to have 360 rotating images of the items.
Commercial systems to do this cost thousands and as we...
20 DECEMBER 2009
On the recently redesigned Virtual Swanage website we thought it would be useful to have a Twitter feed with daily events being submitted once a day from the websites event diary.
We considered manually updating the site...
21 NOVEMBER 2009
DIY CNC Mill Controller for Stepper Motor Milling Machine
This addon to our CNC mill was made to allow manual control of the mills cnc stepper motors using a pair of 2 axis joysticks obtained from a broken radio control...
26 OCTOBER 2009
DIY Camera Laser Break Beam Trigger MK 2
A DIY optical camera flash or camera trigger using a laser and PIC Processor based timer circuit.
Following from the basic high speed photography trigger we made, we found that...
18 OCTOBER 2009
A DIY optical camera flash or camera trigger using a laser and basic timer circuit.
I have always enjoyed trying to take water drop photos but getting the flash and camera to trigger at the right moment by hand was always...
27 JUNE 2009
After looking for more items around the house which could be charged from the new solar system, we decided to try converting the Logitech Harmony 885 remote control chargers to run from 12 volts.
The Logitech charger runs...
26 JUNE 2009
After moving my monitors around on the office desk to make way for some new kit, I found that the best place would be if one of the screens was fitted flush against one of the brick walls in the office.
I made this VESA...
18 FEBRUARY 2009
Below is the code to make an .aspx page written in C# which scans all folders on a website and generates a xml site map which google can read for all .htm or .html pages. If you want to add other file types, edit the in...
16 FEBRUARY 2009
The closure of www.swanageforum.co.uk
As the designer and webmaster of the Swanage forum, I thought it was about time that I put the record straight to why I pulled the site before any more rumours appear like the one...