Make Magazine

Make television Episode 110

Fri, 06 Mar 2009 15:31:45 +0000

Make: television encourages everyone to invent, revent, recycle, upcycle, and act up.We 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 piece of wood, some string, nails and a cigar box. Then he "makes it rock" by wiring it to a buck-fifty cassette-player amp. In a Hidden Treasures segment, Mister Jalopy opens up his Chevy Camaro's cassette player to show us the beauty and value of clear schematics for makers like him. The Maker Channel features a sunlight-triggered poem, a pedal-powered blender, a time lapse photography rig, and a handmade theremin.

Make television Episode 109

Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:32:05 +0000

Make: television encourages everyone to invent, revent, recycle, upcycle, and act up. 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 measure the G forces of roller coasters and other high-speed activities. In the Toolbox segment, William Gurstelle demonstrates the slick, back-cutting action of a super-sharp Japanese saw. The Maker Channel features a tesla coil-powered guitar amp, an RFID reader implanted in a human hand, and LED fan sign to bring to baseball games, and a solar powered bicycle gondola.

Make television Episode 108

Fri, 20 Feb 2009 15:38:46 +0000

Make: television encourages everyone to invent, revent, recycle, upcycle, and act up. 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 his "Compact Childhood Museum." The Maker Channel segment features French fries shot from a spud gun, freeline skates that ride like a skateboard, an Asteroids game wrist watch, and a motorized wheel chair that shoots flames.

Make television Episode 107

Fri, 13 Feb 2009 19:59:43 +0000

Make: television encourages everyone to invent, revent, recycle, upcycle, and act up. We bike along with Ali Momeni and his fleet of mobile video projectors that transform public spaces into real-time sound and light shows on a massive scale. In the Workshop, John Park combines a treadmill motor and PVC pipe to build a wind generator. William Gurstelle shows us some devices that make it easy to release heavy loads, and the Maker Channel presents creations from around the country including a balloon organ, ball-fetching autonomous robot, and a lie-detector wristband.

Make television Episode 106

Mon, 09 Feb 2009 17:01:44 +0000

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 soldering. The Maker Channel presents a Smash Bat that snaps moment-of-impact photos, a drum synthesizer played with Skittles, a pedal-powered tennis ball launcher, and an evil mouse that causes the cursor to misbehave when moved.

Make television Episode 105

Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:22:23 +0000

Make: television encourages everyone to invent, revent, recycle, upcycle, and act up. 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 1950 Studebaker. The Maker Channel features a treadmill bike, an obedient, robotic foot stool, a homemade foundry (built by two 14 year old wizards), and an ultra-high-temperature heat ray that can melt brass!

Make television Episode 104

Sat, 24 Jan 2009 15:21:39 +0000

Make: television encourages everyone to invent, revent, recycle, upcycle, and act up. 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 for cable ties, and Maker Channel contributors show off a motorized lounge chair, an eye-popping I/O brush, a vest that controls a video game with a back massage, and an explosive, giant match made from thousands of matchsticks.

Make television Episode 103

Sun, 18 Jan 2009 21:07:09 +0000

Make: television encourages everyone to invent, revent, recycle, upcycle, and act up. 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 aerial photographs, and Cy Tymony demonstrates some sneaky uses for magnets. The Maker Channel presents a theremin orchestra, a smoke ring generator, a pulse-jet bike, and a video-hack method to paste yourself with a beer into congressional hearings on C-SPAN.

Make television Episode 102 - repost

Sat, 10 Jan 2009 14:51:56 +0000

Make: television encourages everyone to invent, revent, recycle, upcycle, and act up. ==Make: television Episode 102: Aerial Kite Photography & Burrito Blaster== # Maker ProfileAerial Kite Photography- We follow maker Cris Benton as he takes spectacular aerial photographs by rigging remote-controlled cameras to high flying kites. # Maker Workshop Burrito Blaster - John Park shows us how to build a Burrito Blaster - an air cannon that will launch hot dogs, brats and burritos into the bleachers at the ball park. Download the PDF # Maker to MakerGiant iPod - In this 'Hidden Treasures' segment, Mister Jalopy shows us his giant iPod. # Maker Channel

Make television premiere

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:20:54 +0000

Make: television debuted today online and on public television (broadcast / cable tv). The series encourages everyone to invent, revent, recycle, upcycle, and act up. Based on the popular Make magazine, each half-hour episode hopes to inspire viewers to think, create, and, well, make. Each episode can be viewed or downloaded DRM-free, in HD on makezine.tv - the show is also available on Vimeo, YouTube, blip.tv and iTunes... and now here on LegalTorrents!

Citizen Engineer

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:25:20 +0000

Volume 01 - Phones: SIM card & payphone hacking Learn how a SIM card works (the small card inside GSM cell phones), make a SIM card reader, view deleted messages, phone book entries and clone/crack a SIM card. Citizen Engineer is an online video series about open source hardware, electronics, art and hacking by Limor (Ladyada) Fried of Adafruit Industries & Phillip (pt) Torrone of MAKE magazine. Modify a retired payphone so it can be used as a home telephone and for VoIP (Skype). Then learn how to modify the hacked payphone so it accepts quarters - and lastly, use a Redbox to make "free" phone calls from the modified coin-accepting payphone. Length: 30 minutes Build the SIM card reader/writer clectronic kit Want to build your own SIM card reader? The SIM card reader/writer is available at Adafruit Industries, it is for experimentation and investigation of SIM & Smart cards.