The New Inventors
Nick writes “In reference to Xeni Jardin’s mention of the “American Inventor TV Series” on Boing Boing, I thought you might be interested in a TV series that runs on the Australian national broadcaster called ‘The New Inventors’ – It’s a revival of a late 70’s series called ‘The Inventors’ and each week features three makers and their projects which are assessed by a panel of design and engineering experts. The linked page doesn’t reference more recent episodes, but should give you some idea of the kind of ideas presented.” Link.
MAKE will be covering ABC’s American Inventor’s auditions November 17th at 8am in San Francisco. If you’re going, ![MAKE OUT :-]](https://i0.wp.com/makezine.com/wp-content/uploads/2005/11/750thumb2.jpg?fit=79%2C82&ssl=1)
One of our favorite web comics The Joy of Tech did an excellent job of breaking the story about our new entry in the Magazine arena – MAKE OUT: Geek love on your terms. In the premiere issue you can win a McGyver Fantasy date and build a love detector. Thanks to everyone who sent this in! 
If you’re at the Portable Media Expo, pop by and say hi for the MAKE session! – “…hacks, mods, tips and how-tos that will likely void the warranty of just about anything you might consider to fetch or record podcasts. From the pages of MAKE magazine, to sharing his publishing tips and tricks, to a flurry of how-tos for mobile devices, this session will be action packed with everything you didn’t know was possible with a myriad of technologies.” 
MAKE will be on G4’s Attack of the show on 11/07/2005 – “Make magazine’s Phillip Torrone shows us some cool DIY projects and how to hack some new gadgets. Harmonix president Alex Rigopulos rips some licks on Guitar Hero, the new rockin’ music game for the PlayStation 2. We return to the car mecca that is the SEMA Show for a look at the hottest accessories inside cars these days.” 
Brian writes “A great Maker competition, founded buy a bunch of guys with some spare parts and mechanical know-how and a desire to see how far they could throw a pumpkin. I’ve taken my family for the last five years and it’s great to see the machines, from human powered onagers of Roman design to hundred foot long air powered cannons.” 
Judah writes “We run free community events around the NY/NJ metro area, and have a great opportunity to have our events broadcast nationwide, via a cable modem to sattelite uplink. The challenge: some of these events take place in buildings with SLOW internet connections. After some research, I have found in every location a cable modem within about 1,000 feet (either in an office or someone’s house) that we can use, but these cable connections can be across a busy street and/or a few buildings away. Attaching antenas to these buildings is not really an option. We need a free standing ethernet port (i.e. not a card in a computer – needs to be a port on a router, access point, etc.) to connect the polycom camera to so it can talk directly via IP to the sattelite uplink. My first guess was the 
