This week in the MAKE photo pool we reached our 300th member! In honor of this tri-centennial we’re giving our 300th member Jay Sundu a year of MAKE! Join the MAKE photo pool today, you never know what you’ll see or what we’ll be giving away soon! Where else can you see a potato cannon in action! Link.
New show to download! from the shadows box 3- An inside look at the vulnerabilities of the 2.4Ghz spectrum with a complete vulnerability assessment by means of WarDriving and WarViewing (from a plane too!). Helping folks with HDTV and HD-DVD, extend the range of the wireless capabilities of the Sony PSP and “How to Crack a WEP Key in a Few Minutes”. Link.
Kevin Rose of G4Tech TV fame is moving on to do his own web only technology show (and homegrown network) called Systm. All episodes will be released free of charge, in a variety of formats (Theora, Xvid, WMV, H.264, PSP), wrapped in RSS (for vidcasting) and licensed under the Creative Commons. Link. I think we’re going to see a lot of great shows come out this year!
Make reader Ross from the UK writes “I took the preview pdf of the “Lets Rumble” article from the front page and experimented with trying to fit it into the PSP photo size. Well it worked really well so i finished off the article and put it on my PSP. It looks great so i thought i would share it you” Here are the photos. And here is a ZIP file with the images sized for the PSP, just place them in the PSP/PHOTOS directory on your memory stick.
This week we released 3 audio shows to help pass the time waiting in line for Episode III and as DIY noise cancelation. Today while in line the fellow in front of us had seen it already and was convinced it was a good idea to tell everyone around him all the details. Don’t let this happen to you, get these audio shows. Yahoo! Music interview with Ian Rogers, DIY Robotics with Thomas Burick from White Box Robotics and DIY Droid/R2-D2 builders with Tom Jozwiak & Kelly Krider.
I watch the daily news vlog (video blog) called RocketBoom with Amanda Congdon and today MAKE appeared on there! I had shot a video about our 2nd issue for a friend about our podcast article and it was automatically downloaded via ANT, then played. More about ANT here. And go check out the RocketBoom video here.
This fellow built a hovercraft for his son out of junk in his garage using the plans he found online. He used a countertop as the base, a leaf blower as the “lifter”, PVC pip, Goop glue, plastic sheeting and duct tape. Link.
