MAKE was on G4’s “Attack of the Show” earlier this week – talked about the PEZ MP3 player, the “Fly” pentop computer and homemade high speed flash photography. Here’s a QuickTime of the segment (click here to view) or for iTunes users, click here and click SUBSCRIBE to have the videos and other MAKE goodies automatically downloaded. Let us know if this transfers over to video iPods!
In MAKE 04 we show you how to make a rocking pocket amp from a mint tin (Penguin, Altoids, etc). You can preview the PDF here, or you can subscribe to our iTunes feed and have all our new audio shows, videos and PDFs delivered to your iPod. Click here and click subscribe in iTunes.
This week, O’Reilly’s audio magazine program Distributing the Future takes a look at the Data for Web 2.0. Tim O’Reilly explains “What is Web 2.0,” Marc Hedlund thinks about the browsers of the future that might mash up the private data on your hard drive with data that lives on the Web, NAVTEQ’s Robert Denaro explains why NAVTEQ drives so many miles each day to gather the geographic information you use in your favorite online mapping applications, Phil Torrone is already hacking the iPod nano, and our “FOO Cast” is more of Richard Giles’ Gadget show interview with John Batelle. Link and MP3.
We’ll be back with lots of MAKE audio starting next week – but do check this out, we talk about the PSP and there are some great guests covering many other topics! “Distributing the Future” is O’Reilly Media’s new weekly podcast featuring the technology and the people behind what you use now and what you’ll use next. This half hour program includes interviews and commentary on science, technology, related social issues, and just plain fun. This show is in public beta. Link. Listen to MP3.
MADE ON EARTH – Report from the world of backyard technology: The ShopperChopper, a modded shopping cart with wheels from a wheelchair, shocks from a hospital bed, a shopping cart from the supermarket, and a 10 hp Briggs and Stratton generator motor, as read by David Albertson, MAKE Creative Director. This is an enhanced podcast; it will play audio and show the actual pages of MAKE Magazine from volume 03 when you click on them. iTunes: Click this link and click SUBSCRIBE.
A MAKER profile of Natalie Jeremijenko, building toxic sensing robot dogs from discarded toys, as read by Dale Dougherty, MAKE publisher. This is an enhanced podcast: it will play audio and show the actual pages of MAKE Magazine from volume 02 when you click on them. We hope to do more of these, so please let us know what you think. iTunes: Click this link and click SUBSCRIBE. View the comments for more info (the MAKE iTunes feeds has tons of free articles and more from the mag)…
Last night at a mini “MAKER” fair we experimented with a high powered green laser (161mw). We were able to pop a variety of balloons instantly, sizzle our way through some plastic cups and cook a tiny part of a potato chip. Here’s the video! QuickTime (MOV). iTunes: Click here and click SUBSCRIBE.
