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February 29, 2008
Hack Your Brain - Best of Weekend Projects
This weekend on Best of Weekend Projects with Bre Pettis, learn how to hack your brain by making Mitch Altman's Brain Machine! It flashes LEDs into your eyes and beeps sounds into your ears to make your brain waves sync up into beta, alpha, theta, and delta brainwaves!
Mitch invents cool things that make the world a better place. He's well known for the TV-B-GONE and this brain machine is his latest project. One of the cool things about this project, is that it builds on an open source project. Mitch used Lady Ada's open source MiniPOV and switched out LEDs and added new capacitors and resistors and then rewrote the firmware to make it into the brain machine. It's super cool when people make hardware open source so that others can work with it!
Make sure to take pictures of your build and of you in your brain machine and upload them to the Make: flickr pool.
Get the podcast and pdf downloaded automatically in itunes. - Link
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Feb 29, 2008 08:00 AM
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February 22, 2008
AHAB High Altitude Ballooning - Best of Weekend Projects
This week on Best of Weekend Projects, we look back at part two of the AHAB (High Altitude Balloon Adventure). In this epic Bre & Co. travel to Eastern Washington to launch a GPS and camera enabled balloon into NEAR SPACE!
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Feb 22, 2008 08:00 AM
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February 15, 2008
Trebuchet - Best of Weekend Projects
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This week on the best of Weekend Projects with Bre Pettis, we join him in arms and learn how to make a trebuchet. With a trebuchet, you can smash your enemy's castle or at least fling the heads of enemy spies into their courtyard. In the old days, the most important metric of a trebuchet is that it can fire farther than your enemy's archers can shoot their arrows!
In this podcast you'll see how to build a paperclip trebuchet and a medium sized trebuchet. The paperclip trebuchet can be made in under an hour and it teaches you a lot about how they work.
The medium sized trebuchet took a little longer to cut, drill, and screw together, but it's not hard.
Download the pdf for more instructions to make your own seige weapon!
Posted by Eric Michael Beug |
Feb 15, 2008 08:00 AM
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February 8, 2008
Star Wars Crafts - Craft Video Podcast
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I visited Bonnie Burton at Lucasfilm in San Francisco recently where she works her crafty magic creating projects on starwars.com for the kids section of the site. Take a look and enjoy some of the fun projects she makes. All I can say is how much I love the Yoda fountain!
Here's are the links to the project how-tos mentioned in the video:
- Yoda Doll - Link.
- Chewie Tissue Box Cozy - Link.
- R2D2 Pinhole Camera - Link.
- Mouse Droid Cat Toy - Link.
- Hammerhead Sock Doll - Link.
- Super Deformed Dolls - Link.
Check out also the archive to all the Star Wars crafts projects and more photos of the projects on Bonnie's Flickr.
Bonnie taught one of the most popular craft workshops at Maker Faire Bay Area last year -- How to make a Yoda doll. Here are some crafters showing off what they made! See more photos in Bonnie's Flickr set. - Link.
Also check out Bonnie's book, You Can Draw Star Wars that I reviewed last spring on the CRAFT blog. - Link.
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Feb 8, 2008 01:00 PM
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Jam Jar Jet - Best of Weekend Projects
This month we continue the best of "Weekend Projects" with Bre Pettis. This particular episode was made to celebrate the One-Year Anniversary of Weekend Projects and features the flames to prove it! If you haven't seen this podcast, its a doozy. Be sure not to burn your house down, and join Bre as he makes a JAM JAR JET!
This pulse jet works by igniting a flame, which pushes the gas out of the jar and then bit of a vacuum that it leaves sucks the air back in and the circle is repeated. Watch the video and download the pdf to learn how to make it!
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Feb 8, 2008 08:00 AM
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February 1, 2008
Single Speed Bike - Best of Weekend Projects
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Another bit of archived awesomeness from the Weekend Project vault!
Make your bike into a single speed hipster bike! This week Dave Neff joins me to take some old broken bikes and mash them up into a new radical ride. Everbody's experience will be different, but we rebuilt the bottom bracket, put new wheels on, chopped and flipped the handlebars, took off one of the front chain rings and put on a single speed bmx-style gear in the back. We did this because we made a bike out of parts found in the trash, but if you've got a working ten speed, you can just strip the derailleur, chop and flip the handlebars and switch out the back gears for a single speed freewheel gear.
Single speed bikes are great for folks who live in a moderately flat city. There are less parts to get stolen and less parts to break.
Don't miss a single video! You can get the Make: Video Podcast and PDFcast downloaded automatically by subscribing in itunes. - Link
Posted by Bre Pettis |
Feb 1, 2008 08:00 AM
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January 25, 2008
Intro to the Arrrr-duino - Best of Weekend Projects
The retro Weekend Project-o-thon continues!
Joe Grand and Bre Pettis join forces to become the Awesome Electronics Workshop and introduce you to the Arrr-duino! In this tutorial, you'll learn the basics of programming and setting up your arduino. Don't have one yet? You can get them in the Make: Store or build you're own! - Subscribe Link
Arduino in the Make: Store - Link
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Jan 25, 2008 08:00 AM
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January 18, 2008
Plastic Bag Crochet - CRAFT Video Podcast
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While at Maker Faire in Austin, I met Cristen Andrews of cristencrochet.blogspot.com who crocheted the most lovely backpacks, hats, cozies, bowls and more -- all from plastic bags. Here in this video she shows us some of the cool things she makes and how to get started crocheting with plastic bags.
For more detail, check out the step-by-step photos on her blog on how to prepare plastic bags for crocheting here. - Link.
Related:
CRAFT: Plastic Bag Crafts - Link.
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Jan 18, 2008 01:00 PM
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Rodent Powered Nightlight - Best of Weekend Projects
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The Weekend Projects Podcast Reruns continue with the Rodent Powered Nightlight! This was a project inspired by the writing of William Gurstelle. I've done a lot of his projects and they're always awesome!
Make sure to check out the PDF for more detailed instructions!
Posted by Bre Pettis |
Jan 18, 2008 08:00 AM
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January 11, 2008
Shovercraft - Best of Weekend Projects
Homemade hovercrafts + shuffleboard = shovercraft!
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While Bre takes a break, you get to revisit the best of Weekend Projects!
Get your motors running, put your safety helmet, ear protection and safety glasses on, steady your fire extinguishers and prop open your first aid kit... Now you're ready for he ultimate in diy sports - Shovercraft! Combining all the thrills of a personal hovercraft with the targeting challenges of shuffleboard, shovercraft is the ultimate in frictionless fun!
Go download the instructions and make your own. I can't wait until people start posting their hovercrafts to the make flickr pool!
Of course if you subscribe in itunes, the videos get downloaded automatically for you, no muss no fuss. You can browse all the Make: videos on blip.tv and youtube at your leisure!
Posted by Bre Pettis |
Jan 11, 2008 08:00 AM
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January 7, 2008
Chaos Radio Express International Interview
While in Berlin, Tim Pritlove, interviewed me for his radio show: Chaosradio Express International. It's the English-language branch of his German radio show. The 15 English podcasts will make you want to learn German to hear the rest of his German podcasts! We had a great conversation about hacking, education, and we chatted at length about hacker spaces and CCC. You can go listen to it on the page, or download the mp3.
Chaosradio (German) - Link
Chaosradio International (English) - Link
Posted by Bre Pettis |
Jan 7, 2008 07:47 AM
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January 4, 2008
Learn How To Do Laser Graffiti - Weekend Projects Podcast
This weekend, learn how to draw on buildings. Laser Tagging is a non-destructive way of using a laser, video camera, computer and projector to apply graffiti to buildings! It's a lot of fun!
You'll see the GRL Vienna guys Michael Zeltner and Florian Frühauf who rocked Berlin with 5500 lumens of laser graffiti awesomeness. They would like to extend a thanks to Theo Watson and Evan Roth and James Powderly of GRL who came up with the idea, first implemented it and put it out there in the public domain.
The GRL NYC peeps recently put out a tutorial on starting your own GRL. - Link
Lasers, like power tools, can be dangerous. You're responsible for your own safety!
Posted by Bre Pettis |
Jan 4, 2008 10:00 AM
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Learn How To Do Laser Graffiti - Weekend Projects PDFcast
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This week download the Weekend Projects PDF to get all the details for creating graffiti on buildings! PDF Link
Posted by Bre Pettis |
Jan 4, 2008 09:32 AM
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January 2, 2008
Joule Thief flashlight
Maker Jimmie Rodgers posted this flashlight variation of the Joule Thief to the MAKE Flickr pool.
Joule Thief - Link
Related:
- Make a Joule Thief - Weekend Projects Video Podcast - Link
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Jan 2, 2008 02:00 PM
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December 21, 2007
Make DIY Ornaments - Weekend Projects PDFcast
Download the PDF to check out the detailed instructions and as a special bonus, you can read up all about tensegrity in Bill Gurstelle's awesome tensegrity article from Make: Volume 6! - PDF Link
Posted by Bre Pettis |
Dec 21, 2007 08:21 PM
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Make DIY Ornaments - Weekend Projects Podcast
Make these two DIY ornaments to make your tree the envy of all! The first project is a simple tensegrity project. My dad taught me about this as a kid and I was reminded and inspired by Michael at Maker Faire Austin. The second project is a small icosohedron which is a 20 sided geometric shape. I've made these before out of paper plates for picnic geometry, but this is a really great way of recycling magazines into ornaments! Also, if you are younger and have adults wandering around your house with nothing to do, get them making ornaments and feeling productive!
You can subscribe in iTunes and get this podcast downloaded automatically! - Subscribe Link
Posted by Bre Pettis |
Dec 21, 2007 10:10 AM
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December 14, 2007
Make a Sympathy Doll - Weekend Projects Podcast
These dolls make great gifts! Nothing cheers someone up like a little soft, fuzzy, and cute bundle of misery. Make sure to download the pdf for the full instructions!
Sponsored by Ponoko: Ponoko is a new concept that's perfect for Makeziners. Use it to make and promote your product ideas. Ponoko supplies the digital manufacturing technology and the materials, you supply the creativity. Plus you can sell your product ideas in their showroom. Ponoko is this week's sponsor of our weekend video podcast.
Make a design, upload it - have it cut on laser cutter and delivered to you.
If you're one of the first 10 Makeziners to make a product using Ponoko you'll get shipping for free.
Now *before* you grab up all the free shipping requests please please upload your designs and consider *making a product* a lot of folks out there uploaded designs but didn't get a product made (yet) that's ok - but ideally Ponoko would like to see more folks getting something made to take advantage of the free shipping, thanks.
Posted by Bre Pettis |
Dec 14, 2007 10:00 AM
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Make a Sympathy Doll - Weekend Projects PDFcast
In 2003 and 2004 I had an art studio and I would paint giant color field paintings using a knife with thick layers of oil paint. These would take days to dry and so I started making dolls to fill the time. I made the first one, a cute sad bunny, and took it to an art opening that night sticking out of my pocket. Over the course of the evening, four strangers tried to buy it off of me! I didn't sell, but it got me started!
The sympathy doll idea is to make a doll that is so sad and pathetic that it inspires empathy and love from people. You really can't feel too bad around these dolls because you just know that no matter what, you don't have it that bad! I've made hundreds of these dolls, and here's a small gallery of dolls that I've made for you to check out. - Link
It's the 5th anniversary of creative commons this week! I'm licensing Sympathy Dolls under the creative commons attribution license, so feel free to make them and sell them, just make sure to give attribution to me with a link to brepettis.com and you're good! Also if you're going to be at the CC party in Berlin tonight, make sure to say hi! - Link
Dowload the PDF to get the full instructionss for making your own Sympathy Doll! - PDF Link
Posted by Bre Pettis |
Dec 14, 2007 09:00 AM
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December 13, 2007
MAKE: one of Apple's iTunes "best video podcast of 2007, classics: video"
MAKE: is one of Apple's iTunes "best video podcast of 2007, classics: video". Thanks Apple and everyone who picked us! You can see all the podcasts here on iTunes - Link & to subscribe to the MAKE podcast in iTunes - click here.
Congrats to Bre who tirelessly makes a new video each week and to Katie who runs our sponsorship for the MAKE video podcasts and of course our sponsors Microchip (earlier in 2007) and our latest sponsor Ponoko!
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Dec 13, 2007 01:00 AM
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December 7, 2007
Make a Secret Compartment Book - Weekend Projects Podcast
This weekend, make a secret compartment book project that you can give as a gift. This project is perfect for valuables or you could customize the compartment to fit a gift exactly.
Sponsored by Ponoko: Ponoko is a new concept that's perfect for Makeziners. Use it to make and promote your product ideas. Ponoko supplies the digital manufacturing technology and the materials, you supply the creativity. Plus you can sell your product ideas in their showroom. Ponoko is this week's sponsor of our weekend video podcast.
Make a design, upload it - have it cut on laser cutter and delivered to you.
If you're one of the first 10 Makeziners to make a product using Ponoko you'll get shipping for free.
Now *before* you grab up all the free shipping requests please please upload your designs and consider *making a product* a lot of folks out there uploaded designs but didn't get a product made (yet) that's ok - but ideally Ponoko would like to see more folks getting something made to take advantage of the free shipping, thanks.
Posted by Bre Pettis |
Dec 7, 2007 11:00 AM
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