New MAKE Audio show: Lexus Hybrid and Making Comics
Here’s the latest audio from MAKE Magazine! In this show we talk about the new Lexus RX Hybrid (we’ll be hacking one up!) and we have an interview with the makers of Comic Life! the amazing application for Do-it-yourself comic creation you can print and share on the web. Right click or Control + click to download this MP3 to you local system or add the MAKE Audio feed to your podcasting application and get the show automatically! Show notes after the jump…
We interviewed Amal Graafstra about his creepy cool human RFID project. Amal embedded a RFID tag in his hand to easily open his car door, home and to be used as his “password” for a Windows login prompt all by simply waving his hand. RFID stands for Radio Frequency Identification, it allows the storing and retrieval of data usually through a RFID tag and transceiver from 
During Etech we had our Maker fair, which we’ve described as a Science fair- with beer. I’m finally catching up with finding more of the photos out there in Flickr land, blog posts and posting some of our own- here are some great photos from photographer Emily Nathan. We’re already planning some more events like our first Maker fair, stay tuned!
MIT’s Media Lab always has a lot going on to inspire. Hacker in the trenches Dick@MIT reports in with some great links and descriptions of some of the projects and experiments. Balloon speakers, Self powered remotes, text projection, augmented reality, 3D object scanner, light slinky and a ton of videos…
I don’t mean to be morbid, but I thought this was a fun clock to make to remind me not to waste time (and always opt for a faster computer)…Here are instructions on making a countdown clock for your Mac which gives a “rough” estimate how much time you have left before you kick the bucket- it’s based on a few stats and health factors.
Live from Etec: Blogger.com founder Evan Williams from ODEO gave a preview of the podcast recording, hosting and publishing service. Users will be able to play audio from any page (from the source location via Macromedia Flash) use tags, subscribe, add to queues, share queues, post comments, download for iTunes, WinMedia, etc. Keep reading for more information and photos…
Wow- the Sci-Fi channel is