New video! Bre writes – Bre and his friend Cielito hung out in Ajay‘s car with voice controlled functionality. His speech recognition system is set it up with 4 mics, two of which capture his voice and the other two cancel noise interference. With the windows wide open in traffic, Ajay was able to boss […]
Bre from I Make Things sent some electrons our way with another installment of the “I Make Things video” podcast! “While in Austin for a weekend of SXSW adventures, I had the chance to hang out with Seven, who’s a maker interested in exploring a wide variety of innovative projects. Recently he’s been making musical […]
Bre sent in the latest video interview for our weekly MAKE VIDEO PODCAST feature – “RFID stands for Radio Frequency IDentification. I met up with a bunch of RFID innovators at the Seattle Dorkbot Gathering at the COCA art gallery. These folks are implanting RFID chips into their bodies and making cool projects that they […]
At Etech I’m going to have a couple Roombas, one will run programs and zip around on its own, the other will be controlled by a PC via Bluetooth. Here’s a video of a quick test before I packed one of them away – Link (MP4). Right after Etech – the bots and their meat […]
Awesome, we posted up an old photo from 1895 of a “Railway velocipede” and of course, turns out, there are makers out there building and using these. Here are a few that were sent in. Railbike along the scenic Willamette River between Lake Oswego and Portland – Link. Krazmo writes – “This guy has well […]
Pat sent in this week’s video from the National Association of Manufacturers – “…here’s a 6-minute video of the Westfield (Mass.) Manufacturing Company, makers of the Columbia bicycle (from the 1950’s) “bringing health and pleasure to millions of Americans.” Indeed..feel the vintage manufacturing vibe!” Link. Pictured here, a gorgeous 1950 Columbia Bicycle from the Nostalgic.net […]
In MAKE 05, we show you how to make your own soda bottle rocket so you can start your own rocket program even if you’re not Burt Rutan. With a few empty soda bottles and some PVC pipe, you can build a high-performance water rocket. Here’s a video of author Steve Lodefink and his 4-year-old son Ivan launching theirs. Click here to get the video delivered automatically with iTunes. This video (MP4) will play on PC/Mac/Linux/PSPs and iPod video devices.
