by Greg Lawler | Aug 19, 2011 | make
Last weekend some friends and I launched a weather balloon from Point Magu Rock. Attached to the top of the payload was a video camera and this is what it saw… For more photos and video, visit http://www.happycapsule.com/
by Greg Lawler | Feb 13, 2011 | make, photography
I installed the Canon Hack Development Kit – CHDK – on my Canon Powershot G9 camera. CHDK is an amazing Open Source project that provides an alternate firmware for Canon Powershot cameras. With CHDK installed, you can write scripts to control virtually...
by Greg Lawler | Dec 23, 2010 | kids, make
The kids, grandpa Bill and I made some boats and got completely drenched floating them down the creek behind our house. The most amazing thing was that we drove down to try and find them and about an hour after launch we spied one of them sailing past the airport...
by Greg Lawler | May 28, 2010 | make
A couple of weeks ago I tried to coax a swarm into an empty hive about 20 feet up on the back side of a movie set facade in Ventura. The bees did not move into the hive but instead used the underside of the box as a nice extension to hang their comb on. Today I went...
