The MAKE team visited Squid Labs in Emeryville, CA – Squid Labs designs chips, electronics, robotics, materials, embedded systems, manufacturing processes as well as recently launching Instructables. Saul Griffith was kind enough to give us a tour of their work shop, fab lab and some of their projects. We’re trying this out as an iPod video podcast, check the comments for other versions too Link to M4V (iPod video). To get our videos and audio sent automatically to your PC/Mac with iTunes click here and click SUBSCRIBE.
Nat sent in a link to his brother-in-law’s Flickr photo set of the a great Cigarbox guitar construction. In MAKE 04, we have a fun article on how-to build and play a sweet-sounding 3-string instrument in an afternoon – Link. Bonus link – here’s MAKE Editor-in-Chief Mark Frauenfelder playing a version he made, right in your browser or in iTunes (QuickTime).
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.
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