Here are a couple podcasts from around the podcastosphere with yours truly talking about MAKE, hacking, mods, projects and as much as humanly possible over Skype. If you can’t get enough of our shows, check these out, download them and add them to your podcast fetcher. The Gadget Show #11 with Richard Giles of GadgetLounge.net and MacPhilly’s Almost Live! Podcast 017 with Phillip Zannini. Thanks for having me on the shows gents!
Great project to add your MP3 player to your car (Cool MAKE Photo too!) “Over the past couple of years I have upgraded my Pioneer Car CD changer to meet my needs. I went from a 6CD to a 12CD and now I have a portable MP3 player I want to connect. Pioneer offers an auxiliary adapter (CDRB-10) for ~$40 or an iPod adapter (CD-IB100) for ~$130. The auxiliary adapter appears to be a simple input-to-RCA-out, so I decided to make an aux adapter myself for ~$6. A quick tally of the cost of the parts listed is ~$12 bucks but you’ll have plenty of wire for your future projects and an extra stereo jack“. Link.
All the cool kids in the Shire are tagging it up with Moss Graffiti, maybe not- but here’s how to make Moss graffiti. Ingredients: 1 can of beer, 1/2 teaspoon of sugar and several clumps of garden moss. There’s a neat spot in the backyard here, I’m going to try it out and post up pictures. Might make some neat art. Link.
It’s a bike! It’s a shopping cart! It’s CartBike! Not only is this bike mod handy and practical, it requires no welding and uses only “U” brackets and hose clamps! Full step by step and construction details on the site. Link. Thanks Novysan!
Hadley sent this article in by Gregory Ng– With all this crazy talk about people stealing iPods, we at Apple Matters say, If you can’t stand the thought of someone stealing your iPod, follow these simple steps and rig your pride and joy with the iStain. The iStain equips your iPod with the best in theft deterrent technology. Borrowing the principles of dye packs used in banks, the iStain will literally catch your assailant red handed. Link.
Hal says “You guys mentioned welding a while back. Here are a few pages that involve making things out of metal“. How to Bend Tubing and Pipe by Hand– An overview of bending tubing and pipe using simple homemade tools. Tube coping calculator– prints a cutting pattern for joining two round tubes at an angle. Tube deflection calculator– calculates how much square tube will bend under load.
In the Make photo pool Adam Thornton posted a really cool how to on making a 20th century cocktail. Besides it being a useful step by step, Adam used the Comic Maker application “Comic Life” from 