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A lot of MAKE blog readers requested an easy way to suggest a site, so we made a suggest a site form you can send DIY stuff, hacks or projects you think we should know about. You can also click the “Suggest a site” link on the main page or on the blog. In other MAKE news we just surpassed 200 members in our MAKE Flickr group pool! If you haven’t already, join the group and check out the DIY-ity. Where else could you see a powered super-whiteboard eraser in action.

MAKE will be on the Hallerin Hilton Hill show on Friday, April 15th at 9am EDT on WNOX Knoxville, TN AM 990, FM 99.1, FM 99.3 or live on the web if you want to tune in. We’ll be talking about MAKE, some new projects we’re working on and whatever happens to come up with live calls and more. The more we’ve been talking with folks around the country, the more it seems everyone is up to some type of interesting project or invention! Year of the Makers!

Here’s a great project with lots of uses from the deepquest blog…“Exploring my new Siemens MC 60 mobile I discovered an interesting feature. It has the ability to record small pieces of sound with its integrated microphone and store them as WAV files, so that you can use them later as personalized ring tones, etc…The recording feature made me think that I might use the mobile as a magnetic stripe reader, just like I did with computers with soundcards. After some tests I had successful results, so here is the process in case you are interested in doing the same”. In our 01 issue we show how to make one for your PC as well.

Maker Jus2in posted this in our /talk section, but I wanted to get it on the blog…“I’m putting together the plans of a low-cost infant incubator that an Indian physician has developed. She’d like to distribute the plans of the device to other doctors in developing countries. Is there anyone out there who would like to help out on the project or could point me to a place where I could find interested engineers?” Post in the comments if you’re interested.

John writes in with a handy link from his bookmarks- this site shows you how to create a LED display to show all sorts of information about your PC like CPU utilization, memory utilization, network bandwidth, hard drive usage, OS information, program information to monitor CPU, memory, and other resources used by individual threads or processes. I have an old PC with a parallel port and extra drive bay that this would look very sci-fi prop-ish blinking away.

Use commercial blueprint paper for photographic fun. Blueprint paper is inexpensive, easy to process at home, and does not require a darkroom or any special equipment. While almost anyone can make a blueprint image, the real challenge lies in composing an image that takes advantage of blueprint paper’s unique qualities and characteristics. Main site here and the gallery is stunning.

MAKE will be on Dr. Andy’s Poetry and Technology Hour on Wednesday, April 13th at 5:40pm PDT on KDVS (90.3 FM) in Davis and Sacramento, California, and everywhere else via the web. We’ll be talking about our favorite topics, mashing up technology and hacking up things along with some sneak previews of what what’s in the next issue of MAKE (Sorry about the late post with this).