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MAKE VIDEO PODCAST – Soda Bottle Rocket (video)

MAKE VIDEO PODCAST – Soda Bottle Rocket (video)

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.

MAKE VIDEO PODCAST- Interview with Peter Zdebski by Maker Bre Pettis….

MAKE VIDEO PODCAST- Interview with Peter Zdebski by Maker Bre Pettis….

BreMAKE pal Bre Pettis has an excellent MAKE video podcast with Peter Zdebski, who makes things! He’s working on an IMDb AIMbot (like the MAKEbot). It will make querying the IMDb database for ratings go a lot faster on his sidekick (cellphone). He also shows the night vision illuminator he made from a mish-mash of parts he got at Frye’s. Click here to view video (MP4). Click here to get the video delivered automatically with iTunes. This video will play on PC/Mac/Linux/PSPs and iPod video devices.

Use a Powerbook as a level…(video)

IconHere’s “Pall Thayer’s fun with Apple’s Sudden Motion Sensor (ams/sms/accelerometer)” It’s pretty much the coolest widget I’ve ever seen – once installed on a new-ish Powerbook or iBook, you can use your computer as a level. While the act of viewing a level isn’t exactly earth-shattering, there are lots of new ideas and applications being developed: a virtual world controller and a marble madness port…(and here’s a puppet) [via] Link. If you’re wondering what this looks like, here’s a video (MP4).

MAKE VIDEO PODCAST- Testing high speed flash photography kits…

Screenshot 01With our kits you can capture high-speed events, splashes, popping balloons and breaking glass. It’s an adjustable flash controller triggered by light or sound. Our kit includes a high-speed flash, disposable camera, flash controller and fully assembled flash trigger that synchronizes the high-speed event and the flash. Also included is a 6-ft cable connects your high-speed flash to the flash controller, and all the tools needed to precisely time your high-speed picture. Flash controller is adjustable, so the flash can be triggered by soft sounds, loud sounds, a laser pointer, or a flashlight. The kit also includes digital output that can trigger other external flashes, such as the SnapShot II strobe light. But, how do we test each unit before we ship them? Here’s great video with Tom Anderson from Quaketronics showing you what we do! Link (MP4). Click here to get the video with iTunes! This video should work on PC/Mac/Linux/iPod video and PSP (let us know if it does not).

HOW TO – The Super POV, the video!

HOW TO – The Super POV, the video!

Super Pov-9-1Remember the cool Bluetooth enabled POV project (spells words in the air with light) that Mikey Sklar made? Well, he was kind enough to let us put an excellent 3 minute video in our iTunes video podcast feed. So if you’d like to see how it was made, just click here to subscribe to our iTunes feed and you’ll automatically get the video along with all the other great audio and video from MAKE (the video will play on PCs, Macs and video iPods). Link to M4V (17MB).