This trick works especially well with a dedicated phone mount ... steps to give your old smartphone new life like this. To begin, you will need to choose a security camera app.

Professional camera gear is expensive, which is probably why there is such a huge DIY field for camera equipment ... and are easy to mount. He’s created a dolly for them using a T-strap bracket ...

As an exciting project to get incoming freshmen stoked on electrical engineering, he designed a DIY thermal-imaging smartphone ... [Karri] mounts a FLIR Lepton thermal camera, an LPC1768 Cortex ...