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• Is there any way to get this video without bowing down to the almighty apple (downloading itunes)?

  Posted by: screaminscott on May 3, 2006 at 8:46 AM

• click the mp4 link...
  http://downloads.oreilly.com/make/make_faire_leepuzzle.mp4

  Posted by: philliptorrone on May 3, 2006 at 9:16 AM

• Sure, you can use any aggregator like fireant (http://getfireant.com) and slap in the rss feed and it will suck all the videos out and download them for you!

  Here's the feed:

  http://www.makezine.com/blog/index.xml

  Posted by: nbpettis@seattleschools.org on May 3, 2006 at 9:18 AM

• Remember when proprietary audio/video formats were discouraged? All these podcasts make me think its the 90's again and i'm being forced to download REAL Player.

  Sadly, this is the main reason I never resubscribed. Too many 'cool features' are in these formats. Not everyone wants an ipod or itunes.

  Posted by: milleker on May 3, 2006 at 9:20 AM

• Thanks for pointing out that MP4 link, still needed me to install quicktime, but thats much better than installing iTunes. Does anyone know of a decent app to convert these to a standard AVI or MPEG1/2 format?

  Posted by: milleker on May 3, 2006 at 9:29 AM

• I thought I'd post another cool puzzle maker here:
  http://www.maxton.com/max5.html

  BTW, what's up with having to log into O'Reilly for leaving comments, when I'm already logged in with Make for the forum...seems kludgy...

  Posted by: NickCarter on May 3, 2006 at 10:06 AM

• I watched the video and visited both Lee's site and Maxton's. These puzzles are really cool but I wish they would find a way to have some of their creations mass produced so that they would be cheaper. A $1000 is a little steep for me.

  Posted by: wiljefv on May 3, 2006 at 10:24 AM

• A Google search for QuickTime Alternative will yield the way to play QuickTime files without iTunes, but it is a little shady as shown here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuickTime_Alternative

  I personally like iTunes and iPod and Apple in general, so I don't use this but others here do and say it's slick.
  

  Posted by: StormyWetDry on May 3, 2006 at 12:00 PM

• vlan plays mp4s, i used it for everything...

  Posted by: philliptorrone on May 4, 2006 at 12:22 AM

• Yep, I'd sure like to see some of my designs in more affordable mass produced versions as well... the most prohibitive factors in implementing this pertain not only to the huge setup cost of establishing the production processes, but also to the difficulty of convincing retail outlets to stock a new product line on thier shelves.

  I've looked into the feasibility of setting up various mid to high volume production lines, and basically the only way that I could ever see this realistically happening is if there is significant enough public interest (i.e. economic demand) to convince an established distribution company that it's worth their time and money to sell mass produced versions of these puzzles to the retail outlets which they supply merchandise to. Once a distributor gets on board, then the rest apparently falls into place easily enough. This is what I've been told by numerous people in the industry.

  So... if you want to see this happen, then I think the best way that you can help is by publicly expressing your interest in these puzzles (i.e. post a comment here) and maybe a distributor will take notice. That's just my $0.02 worth though... ;-)

  
  

  Posted by: leekrasnow on May 4, 2006 at 3:27 AM

• Yeah I just watched the video too, this guy is a bit too nuclear for me. I'd feel pretty dumb with one of those magic boxes. I like the idea of designing custom puzzles though. I found a good site for making jigsaw puzzles..

  http://www.calyptic.com/

  Posted by: MatrixMike on August 17, 2006 at 8:50 AM

• Where did Lee get those toggle clamps from? I could use a set of those on my CNC machine!

  Awesome puzzles....I'd really like to have one of those clutch boxes.

  Posted by: NGinuity on May 17, 2007 at 7:48 AM

• http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&rh=n%3A553170&page=1

  Posted by: Bre on May 17, 2007 at 8:07 AM

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