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Make: Talk 008 – Kyle Machulis, Kinect Hacker

Make: Talk 008 – Kyle Machulis, Kinect Hacker

Our maker this week is Kyle Machulis, a hardware and software hacker who led the team in making the reverse engineer drivers for the Microsoft Kinect. Kyle is also an avid self-tracker, which means he uses technology to measure different aspects of his health and biology.

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Make: Talk 007 — Charles Platt, Electronics Fun & Fundamentals

Make: Talk 007 — Charles Platt, Electronics Fun & Fundamentals

Our maker this week is Charles Platt. He writes the “Electronics Fun and Fundamentals” column in every issue of MAKE and is also the author of the O’Reilly best-selling book Make: Electronics.

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Make: Talk 006 – William Gurstelle, Backyard Ballistics

Make: Talk 006 – William Gurstelle, Backyard Ballistics

Our podcast interview this week is with William Gurstelle. He’s a contributing editor to MAKE and his books include Backyard Ballistics, Adventures from the Technology Underground, and Absinthe and Flamethrowers.

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Make: Talk 005 – Carol Reiley, Surgical Roboticist

Make: Talk 005 – Carol Reiley, Surgical Roboticist

Our maker this week is Carol Reiley a surgical roboticist at Intuitive Surgical and the founder of Tinker Belle Labs. Carol’s on the cover of the current issue of MAKE, Volume 29, and is the co-author of two how-to projects in this issue.

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Make: Talk 004 – Steve Lodefink, Broad-Spectrum Hobbyist

Make: Talk 004 – Steve Lodefink, Broad-Spectrum Hobbyist

On this week’s Make: Talk podcast, Mark talks with inveterate tinkerer and “broad-spectrum hobbyist” Steve Lodefink about his sunburst guitar project from MAKE Volume 29, his atomic ball clock, bottle rockets and other projects.

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Make: Talk 003 – Larry Cotton, Multi-Maker

Make: Talk 003 – Larry Cotton, Multi-Maker

Here’s the third episode of MAKE‘s podcast, Make: Talk! In each episode, I’ll interview one of the makers featured in the magazine. Our maker this week is Larry Cotton, a long time contributor to MAKE. Larry’s a retired engineer and part-time math teacher who lives in New Bern, NC, and likes to listen to, write, […]

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