A Do-it-yourself “Need for speed” car camera project! I had a Logitech Quickcam Express webcam for 3 years which sucked all the time. It had a very poor video quality and didn’t work well in my dimmed room. So I decided to mount it in front of my car. He even uses the USB cam on a Mac with the open source drivers (iSight not needed) Link.
If you’re in the Cincinatti, Ohio area tune in to 700 AM and listen to MAKE on the SciZone show with Bill Boshears. In the Greater Cincinnati area, call 749-7000 or 1-800-THE-BIG1 (843-2441) anywhere else in the world if you have questions or comments. You can also listen to the show via streaming. Link.
Over the weekend the del.icio.us social bookmark service moved to new servers, and wow- it’s really fast. We have over 1,500 links in the MAKE bookmark list of hacks, mods, resources and all things MAKE-like. You can also just add the RSS feed to your aggregator and see what we see as we see it! Link.
Neat- a story from a MAKE reader building the Marshmallow gun in issue 02– We went to the Ace Hardware store to get the parts…when we got to the counter the clerk said ‘looks like a lot of fun here.’ Spencer sort of acted out putting a marshmellow in a tube and shooting it…she got it. “Ah, you read Make magazine?” She not only reads Make, but had got the second issue before me…and wanted the store to carry it. Link.
Here’s a list of stores, ordered by zip code, which carry MAKE as a newstand/magazine item through our distributor, Ingram Periodicals. Additional bookstores carry and shelve MAKE as a book…those stores may not appear on this list. We’ll try to update this list about once a month. You may want to call your store to verify that they have MAKE in stock. Link.
We at MAKE promise never to use print versions of “pop unders” ads also called “shadow ads”. What are they? Watermark logos and ads under news, stock listings, weather and all sorts of content that usually doesn’t have ads inside them. We prefer the “They Live” style of advertising where you see MAKE on billboards when you build and wear special glasses. [via] Link.
I saw a really great documentary called Yank Tanks – it’s about the ingenuity of Cuban mechanics who often fabricate parts, turn chain saws in to mopeds, bake ceramic brakes in their back yards, all to keep 50+ year old cars running. “Every Cuban is a mechanic” is one of the quotes in the film- there were dozens of hacks and mods on the classic cars as well as the ways to repair them. The Yank Tank hackers are the curators of the largest, living, automobile museum in the world. Link.
