RSSIntroducing Make: television
Presenting a new national series from MAKE magazine, Twin Cities Public Television, and American Public Television.
Make: is the DIY series for a new generation! It celebrates "Makers" - the inventors, artists, geeks and just plain everyday folks who mix new and old technology to create new-fangled marvels. Check out the Episode Guide to watch segments and read descriptions of previous episodes.
MAKE: television Episode 1: Bicycle Rodeo & VCR Powered Cat Feeder
For those of you who like to see the whole episodes of Make: television, here's a chance to see episode 1 in all it's glory. Meet Cyclecide, an inventive band of performance artists who build outrageous bicycle contraptions straight...
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MAKE: television Episode 2: Aerial Kite Photography & Burrito Blaster
Make: television Episode 2: Maker Cris Benton takes spectacular aerial photographs by rigging remote-controlled cameras to high flying kites. In the Maker Workshop John Park builds a Burrito Blaster, which can propel a burrito 50 yards, and Mister Jalopy...
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MAKE: television Episode 3: Steampunk & Pole Camera
Enter the alternative universe of Jake Von Slatt, a leading Steampunk Maker, who turns modern technology into Victorian works of art. In the Maker Workshop, John Park mounts a remote control camera on a painter's pole to take stunning...
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Make: television Episode 4: Fire Sculpture & DTV Antenna
Meet the Flaming Lotus Girls, a women-centric maker collaborative that creates gargantuan, fire-breathing sculptures. In the Workshop, John Park builds a digital TV antenna from wire coat hangers and a $10 video camera stabilizer. William Gurstelle shows surprising uses...
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MAKE: television Episode 5: Kinetic Wave Sculptures & Shopping Cart Chair
Tour the elegant and hypnotic motorized wave sculptures, created by visionary maker Reuben Margolin. In the Maker Workshop John Park upcycles a discarded shopping cart into a stylish easy chair, and Mister Jalopy details the unsung wonders of his...
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MAKE: television Episode 6: Music Machines & Trebuchet
Enter the plugged-in world of Tim Kaiser, a maker who fashions experimental musical instruments from scavenged objects. In the Workshop John Park assembles a portable trebuchet from plastic plumbing pipe, and circuit bender Bianca Pettis demystifies the art of...
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MAKE: television Episode 7: Urban Projections & Wind Generator
Bike along with Ali Momeni and his fleet of mobile video projectors that transform public spaces into massive sound and light shows. In the Workshop, John Park combines a used treadmill motor and PVC pipe to build a wind...
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MAKE: television Episode 8: Watershed Sculptures & Miniature Robots
We journey upstream with environmentalist Dan McCormick, a maker who crafts intricate watershed sculptures out of woven willow. In the Workshop, John Park shows how to build lively and inexpensive miniature robots. Mister Jalopy reveals the hidden treasures of...
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Make: television Episode 9: Computer Making Music & Personal Flight Recorder
Meet CCRMA, a group of musical makers who stretch the sonic boundaries by turning personal computers into an electronic symphony. In the Workshop, John Park hacks a Wii controller and turns it into a personal flight recorder that can...
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MAKE: television Episode 10: Wearable Technology & Cigar Box Guitar
Visit SparkLab founder and designer Syuzi Pakhchyan, a maker who explores the new frontier of high tech and fashion with her space age handiwork. In the Workshop, John Park shows us how to build a guitar out of a...
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Make: Online
Stream audio to your NXT Intelligent Brick
YouTube user gloomyandy demonstrates how to stream 8-bit audio through a NXT brick's crappy speakers via Bluetooth and USB. The trick is to use leJOS, Java-based replacement firmware for the brick. [via The NXT Step]
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Autonomous micro helicopters
While doing research for the next issue of MAKE, I discovered this small company, Centeye, right here in my own Northern, VA backyard. They're developing vision chips for autonomous robotic aircraft. They have several videos on their site, showing...
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A Way to See the Wind
Interesting Light: A Way to See the Wind.... This experimental site-specific installation illustrates alternative, sustainable ways of harnessing energy that will explore the power of the wind in the city, visualizing it as an ephemeral cloud of light. The...
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Our Autobot in Odessa
This Transformeresque giant metal guardian, made largely of junked car parts, was reportedly built by a company called Transinvestservice (TIS) outside the city of Odessa in the Ukraine. There's more pics over at English Russia. [via Neatorama]
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Arduino prototyping lap desk
What a great idea, Riley Porter's lasercut organizer for an Arduino, a solderless breadboard, and small compartments for components....
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Projects: Failure and mounting a "scratch monkey"
When the concept of doing a Projects: Failure something came up years ago, originally as the idea for a Make: Books (in case you hadn't realized, "Projects: Failure" is a silly twist on our "Make: Projects" book series brand),...
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Battle Symets are GO!
The fine folks at Solarbotics have put up another Instructable on how to build a cool BEAMbot, this time, a cranked-up Symet that spins like a maniac and can go to the mat against other bots. It's robot sumo...
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Screw-in coffin patent issues
This is a choice selection of images from the application for U.S. patent 7,631,404, which has since issued to Donald Scruggs of Chino, CA. The title is "Easy inter burial container." [via Neatorama]
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Beginner woodworking project for illusionists?
Erik Minnema made this really nice woodworking piece, called side by side. It's pretty easy to build, all you need are a few pieces of wood and an inter-dimensional table saw.
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Brickarms molds
These are the molds custom Lego armorer Will Chapman of BrickArms uses to make his gats. BrickArms was recently mentioned in Chris Anderson's genre-defining Atoms Are The New Bits article in WIRED, cited as an example of an amateur...
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LED people remake
Lim Chen Pin Kenneth made this cute remake of the blinking LED people I built a couple of years ago.
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<3 your maker: MAKE's Valentine's Day gift guide
We're all suckers for romance, even if most of us believe Valentine's Day is a holiday dreamed up by industry fatcats. Here are MAKE's staff picks for ways to celebrate with that special someone, maker style. Read on, it's a...
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Don't walk! Controlling a pedestrian sign with an Arduino
In this tutorial about controlling a pedestrian sign with an Arduino you can learn a few things. #1 how to control relays with an Arduino, which is really useful for a ton of different projects. #2 How to use an IR remote to control your Arduino, another cool technique. #3 Never trust a crosswalk sign with an Arduino hanging out of it!
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UC Berkeley has "Nobel Laureate Only" parking spaces
Well, in terms of available parking, UC Berkeley makes UT Austin look like an airport remote lot in Iowa on a Wednesday in the summer. And according to this official page there are presently seven living Nobel laureates on the faculty there, so I'm guessing there must be at least seven NL parking spaces. Supposedly, regular mortals have to shell out $50 for presumptious malparkage among the elite.
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LEGO PCB Agitator
Etching your own PCBs can be a time consuming chore to say the least. Anything that automates the process or cuts down on the time it takes is usually appreciated. Maker Rui Cabral of Oporto, Portugal pieced together this handy PCB agitator out of LEGO to help him speed things up a bit.
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Volkemon in Space: Additional launch pics
Our favorite armchair astronaut, Rachel, is sleeping off all the adrenalin and exhaustion of covering the STS-130 shuttle launch for MAKE. (Great job, Rach!) So, we crowd-sourced a few more pictures from Make: Online member Volkemon, who was also...
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"Batteries Out of Thin Air"
Gray Matter: Batteries Out of Thin Air @ Popular Science... A battery that runs on air? Why, that’s almost as good as a car that runs on water! Those cars are fantasy, but batteries that run on air are...
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From typewriter to teleprinter
Flickr user numist had a typerwriter that he wasn't using anymore, so he converted it into a teleprinter.
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Turning a motor into a sensor with the Peppermill
Nicolas Villar sent me a sample of the PepperMill, a new sensor board he and Steve Hodges designed at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, UK. It's a nifty little board. You attach a DC motor and the board can an output voltage when the motor is turned, and analog signals telling you the direction and speed of the motor. It turns a DC motor into a rotary encoder, of sorts.
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