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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Maker Shed weekly wrap-up
A few more products were added to the Maker Shed lineup this week. We finally have more Danger Shields back in stock, along with a bunch of other new products. Earlier in the week, we posted another 45 second in the Maker Shed video, this time it was the Gakken Gennai Hiraga's Spark Generator. Last but not least, don't forget about our Chumby Guts, get 'em while you can!
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The Chumby has landed!
This afternoon I arrived home to see a box on the doorstep. The return address was from the Maker Shed. That could only mean one thing: The Chumby has landed! We cracked the box and checked out the stuff inside. After going to the hypnotist show at the school and doing strange things on stage, I felt surprisingly motivated to assemble Chumby guts until long past my bedtime.
Here are some build notes. I didn't take any photos, in large part because of the very helpful images already taken and posted to the Make Flickr Pool
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Brainwave sofa by Unfold & Lucas Maassen
Brainwave sofa by Unfold & Lucas Maassen... modeled on your brainwaves! via BB. The design of the Brainwave Sofa is driven by a brain scan. Brain wave activities are being recorded by an electroencephalograph by placing electrodes on the...
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Full MIDI drumset with Guitar Hero and Rock Band drums
A demo on how to create an 11-piece MIDI drum kit using Rock Band and Guitar Hero drum sets together. It includes velocity-sensitive triggers and a high-hat open/close pedal. Create a full MIDI Drumset with Guitar Hero and Rock...
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Hole punched art
Gorgeous! ... and likely a future ad campaign for Staples or OfficeMax... Steven Nicholson is a 2yr student at Plymouth university in the United Kingdom studying Graphic communications with typography. And apparently he is a genius with a hole...
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Portable induction accelerator
Here's an interesting take on a coil gun, by Russian YouTube user fuckertrezv. Not content to simply make a high-power electromagnetic device, he designed his to be portable and run on batteries.
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Make: Halloween Contest 2009 - WINNERS!
We had a great contest this year, with tons of awesome projects, and frankly we had a heckuva time picking winners. But the votes are all in, now, and with the scores finally tabulated I am pleased to announced the winners of this year's Halloween Contest.
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Telescope camera mod
Craig Smith sent us these pics and note: My telescope is low end in the scope-world, a 60mm refractor. But I discovered the eyepiece is the same size as my digital camera telephoto lens. My digital camera is low...
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The patented 18 button OpenOffice mouse?
It's not April 1st, so I'm going to guess it's real. The patented 18 button OpenOffice mouse - In partnership with the OpenOffice.org community, WarMouse announced the release of the OpenOfficeMouse, the first multi-button application mouse designed for the...
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Martian landscapes
Martian landscapes - The Big Picture @ Boston.com via Waxy. Since 2006, NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has been orbiting Mars, currently circling approximately 300 km (187 mi) above the Martian surface. On board the MRO is HiRISE, the...
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November Make: Newsletter released
Yesterday we sent out our second issue of the new Make: Newsletter. It contains news of goings on at Maker Media, several original columns (including the second installment of my Maker's Dictionary column), and special Shed and magazine deals...
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Fake skylight uses solar panels to light LEDs
Wish you had a skylight, but don't have the ability to cut a hole in your roof? MAKE subscriber Chris did to, and wrote in to share his solution to the problem: a pv+led-based 'fake' skylight.
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Eight-way toss-and-catch kinetic sculpture
With 8 synchronized catapults, 160 plastic balls per minute are launched, caught, and recirculated. Made mostly of wood, the work is ~36 inches in diameter. On permanent display in the lobby of Lower Merion Elementary School, Merion Station, PA.
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Reminder: Alex Rider book giveaway
As a special preview for our upcoming Alex Rider Dream Gadget Contest, we're giving away two copies of Eagle Strike by Anthony Horowitz, part of the Alex Rider series! Just leave a comment in this post and tell us...
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Claim virtual turf with real-life balls
Want to claim your city as your own? Are you competing with a rival gang for turf, and want to avoid messy knife fights? Well now you can, thanks to Urban Defender.
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Really narrow car
Look, Ma, it's a motorcycle with four wheels. Not a bike but, um... a "quike," maybe?
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3D printed glasses LED clip
Conrad2468 on Thingiverse printed this LED clip for his glasses. Great for reading, soldering, and face tracking (use an IR LED for that one)....
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How-To: Make a Star Trek Bluetooth Communicator
Usually I write about ham radio. But looking at communication devices of the future from the past, I thought it would be fun to have a Star Trek: The Original Series Bluetooth communicator for a cell phone. I worked with Dave Clausen to hack one together from a toy Star Trek communicator, a Bluetooth module, and a microcontroller.
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Online servo database with user reviews
A reader just sent me a link to servodatabase.com, which lists RC servo specifications and provides user reviews, a comparison engine, and various forms of sorting. Looks like a very good resource. [Thanks, Phil!]
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