Urban Safari: Strawberry Moon
There was a full moon on June 20, 2016; it is sometimes called the Strawberry Moon (because it occurs when strawberry season starts). It just also happened to be the Summer [...]
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Starlight Instruments: FocusLynx software and Camera Installation
Last month we completed the hardware installation of the Focuser Boss II hub and controller. We can now manually control the focusing of the Celestron C6 OTA with the [...]
LapWorks mount for tablets and such
Over the years, RainyDayMagazine has looked at a lot of accessories—cases, mounts, etc.—for smartphones and tablets and the like. While accessories designed for a [...]
WenPod Gimbal Stabilizers FirstLook
Back in 2006, we put together the setup that allowed us to take hands-free digital video while hiking, we called it the AdventureCam. Back then, we had to use a small [...]
MiniWing Camile BikeCam FirstLook
What would you get if you threw a bike computer and a GoPro into a blender? If you are lucky you might end up with something cool like the MiniWing Camile. This [...]
Nikon School : DSLR Video Workshop
We switched from Olympus to Nikon when we went from film to digital more than a decade ago. While the Nikon DSLR gear we have is video-capable, we rarely used it for video [...]
Urban Safari : Blackhawks in Boston!!!
At 10 o’clock yesterday we heard that there were going to be Blackhawk helicopters in the Boston Common at 11. We didn’t need to know why, we just wanted to see [...]
Past Tech: Live Photos from 1997
Buried in the two hours of Apple announcements on September 9th was an interesting bit about the new iPhone 6S and its ability to take Live Photos. When you take a photo [...]
Patriots Training Camp 2015
The RainyDayMagazine crew went out to Gillette Stadium for the Patriots Training Camp recently. We like going because we can get pretty close to the action. This visit was [...]
Glow-In-The-Dark Mushrooms
A reader dropped us a note after reading our article on fluorescence rocks and suggested we check out the bioluminescence offerings at GlowMushroom.com. It turned out to [...]
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