MAKE | 2006 November 02

What is a 3D PDF? MAKE shows you! 3D PDF of Spud Gun

Here’s a quick screencast I did to show what a 3D PDF is – in last week’s Weekend Project Bre showed you how to make an awesome spud gun – in the special PDF we sent out (RSS 2.0 / iTunes) you could also interact with the spud gun model in 3D. MAKE worked with our pals at Alibre design to create the 3D PDF and the feedback has been incredible so we’re going to do more over the next few months… YouTube video of the 3D PDF is here, or just view the MP4 – Link.

Related:

Comments @ Radar – Link.
JD on EP, Today’s documents – Link.
3D: Sketching in space; Potato gun in PDF – Link.

Get the 3D PDF:

MAKE on iTunes – Link.
Make a Spud Gun – Weekend Projects: A Make Magazine Video Podcast – Link.
Make a Spud Gun Instructions and 3D PDF – Link.

Special thanks:

3D PDF provided by Alibre design, 3D mechanical design software for everyone — regardless of budget or CAD experience level – Link.

*When you download the PDF, make sure you have Adobe PDF reader 7+.

Posted by Phillip Torrone | Thursday November 2nd, 2006 11:01 PM

Categories: Announcements, MAKE PDF, MAKE Podcast | 12 Comments

ScopeOnPC – Turn your PC into a an oscilloscope

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If you have a paralelle port and make this ADC converter, you can have an oscilloscope – ” ScopeOnPC is a software that uses the PC parallel port and an ADC (Analog To Digital converter) circuit to turn your PC into a full featured oscilloscope”

Sampling Rate 100K Samples per second
-5 V To +5V Input Range
-50V To +50V Olerload Protection
8 Bit Resolution
Scope Timebases:100uS/Div To 100mS/Div
Scope Volts/Div: 100mV/Div To 5V/Div
Works with ANY parallel port

ScopeOnPC (DOS & Windows) – Link.

Related:

PIC Based Oscilloscope with LCD – Link.
Low cost oscilloscope – Link.
Using an Oscilloscope – Link.
HOW TO – Using an oscilloscope – Link.
Oscilloscope alarm clock project… – Link.
HOW TO – Making a hard drive laser oscilloscope – Link.
Single-digit Nixie, Oscilloscope CRT a Weston … – Link.

What’s the cheapest way to get an oscilloscope? – Link.

From the pages of MAKE:

Welcome to the Fab Lab – Neil Gershenfeld shows us that personal fabrication can be fabulous. The teacher of MIT’s course “How to Make (Almost) Anything” gives us a tour of the Boston fab lab, one of a growing network of field labs all over the world. Subscribers–read this article now in your digital edition!

The Maker’s Ultimate Tools – The tools we use — or wish we could get our hands on. Subscribers–read this article now in your digital edition!

Posted by Phillip Torrone | Thursday November 2nd, 2006 10:22 PM

Categories: DIY Projects, Electronics | 1 Comment

“iTunes” jukebox – a physical playlist device

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Tower W 2 Cases Inserted
I really like this DIY jukebox from student @ the Physical Computing class at the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) / NYU – “Welcome to the iTunes Jukebox, a cartridge-based physical interface to iTunes. Using the iTunes Jukebox, during a party you can play your mp3s remotely instead of being chained to your computer. The jukebox is a small tower that houses several jewel cases. As the jewel cases are interchanged, the jukebox communicates with iTunes, changing the songs on demand. In essence, the jukebox allows users to create a physical playlist of their mp3s.

How you use it
Take one of the “cartridges” (an electronically enhanced jewel case), and insert it in an empty slot in the iTunes Jukebox (an electronically enhanced CD tower). The tower is connected to the iTunes software on your computer, and as soon as you insert a jewel case, the song or set of songs associated with that case begins to play.” Schematics and code included – [via] – Link.

Posted by Phillip Torrone | Thursday November 2nd, 2006 9:22 PM

Categories: DIY Projects, Electronics | No Comments

Homemade international clock

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MAKE pal fungus amungus made a DIY international clock from a cheap IKEA clock, nice work… – “This is an international analog clock so you can see what time it is in other cities. With a lazy susan bearing, some magnets, and a couple of bolts this baby rotates and then locks in place, thus changing the time along with the city name on top.” – Link.

Related Maker made clocking:

Harddrive clock – Link.
Maker of the day – Matty Sallin, Bacon-cooking alarm clock – Link.
HOW TO make a Hard Drive Clock – Link.
Shocking alarm clock – Link.
DIY Projection clock – Link.
NIXIÐ˜-1 – Nixie clock – Link.
NES Alarm Clock – Link.

From the pages of MAKE:

Build this clock! It’s Email Time - Innocent-looking “clock” monitors the unread-message pileup in your inbox. Page 117 – Subscribers–read this article now in your digital edition!

Clocky – Made on Earth. MAKE 03 – Subscribers–read this article now in your digital edition!

GPS shed – Made on Earth. MAKE 07 – Subscribers–read this article now in your digital edition!

Posted by Phillip Torrone | Thursday November 2nd, 2006 8:21 PM

Categories: DIY Projects, Instructables | No Comments

RFID Workshop -Mediamatic

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Mediamatic has a RFID workshop running from 14-16th November in Amsterdam. -

“RFID & The Internet of Things is a workshop for a maximum of 16 designers and artists who want to learn more about RFID and its possible (cultural) effects and uses. In this workshop you’ll make your own prototype where the virtual and the real world come together by using rfid tools. You can try out the rfid technology and develop first layouts of possible applications, alternative uses and hacks. During the workshop participants can mould their ideas into working prototypes, allowing them to partake in the whole process; from ‘idea’ to (potential) ‘product’. Workshop projects may range from new ways to personalise objects, to funny new locative applications or world-wide new sustainability scenario’s. Mediamatics’ RFID powered Symbolic Table as well as the Nokia 3220 RFID phone will be amongst the available tools for participants to use, test and play their ideas on.” – [via] – Link.

Related RFID on the MAKE:

DEFCON RFID World record attempt… – Link.
Interview with RFID implanter – Link.
Fun with RFID aka Researchers see privacy pitfalls in … – Link.
HOW TO – Homemade RFID reader – Link.
RFID door – Link.
DIY RFID-Zapper… – Link.
RFID enabled flame shooting trampoline – Link.
MAKE VIDEO PODCAST – Getting “Chipped” – Interviews … – Link.
Build Your Own RFID Reader – Link.
Build a RFID reader/capturer/cloner – Link.
RFID Keyboard, safe – RFIDToys… – Link.
Logging into Windows XP using RFID – Link.

From the pages of MAKE:

RFID for Makers – RFID for Makers. Build this kit to read radio frequency ID tags. Subscribers–read this article now in your digital edition!

Posted by Phillip Torrone | Thursday November 2nd, 2006 7:13 PM

Categories: Electronics, Events | No Comments

PS3 (Playstation 3) controller & iPod shuffle 2.0 taken apart

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This is nice, even before the PS3 is out, folks are already dissecting and taking apart the new SIXAXIS controllers… [via] – Link.

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…And here’s a new iPod Shuffle taken apart too – Link.

Posted by Phillip Torrone | Thursday November 2nd, 2006 6:11 PM

Categories: Gadgets, Gaming | No Comments

The Micropolitan Museum

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From the the Institute for the Promotion of the Less than One Millimeter, The Micropolitan Museum! – “For several centuries artists have depicted the human figure, still-lifes, landscapes or non-figurative motives. One subject has been widely neglected all those years: Micro organisms!

The Micropolitan Museum finally exhibits these often overlooked works of art which are only visible with the aid of the microscope. Curator Wim van Egmond has collected the finest microscopic masterpieces nature has ever produced during eons of natural selection.” [via] – Link.

Merismopedia, a remarkable shaped Cyano-bacteria (blue-green algae) – from the the Bacteria Basement.

Related:

Biomedical Image awards 2006 gallery – Link.
MACROdream – close up photo community – Link.
Science @ MAKE – Link.

MAKE 07:

Backyard Biology – Hack your plants, extract your DNA, 70′s soapbox saga, build a videocam rocket, and head-mounted water cannon. Subscribers–read this article now in your digital edition!

Posted by Phillip Torrone | Thursday November 2nd, 2006 5:11 PM

Categories: Imaging, Science | No Comments

Get MAKE & CRAFT at Newsbeat in Davis, CA

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Nat writes – “Crafter Lauren Mc Nees wrote us because she couldn’t find CRAFT at Newsbeat, the #1 place to get magazines in Davis, CA. Our amazing Circulation Director Heather Harmon was on it, and now you can get your issue of CRAFT magazine, as well as MAKE magazine, whenever you stop by Newsbeat (514 3rd Street b/t D and E Streets, Davis, CA). Go Aggies!” [via] – Link.

Posted by Phillip Torrone | Thursday November 2nd, 2006 4:10 PM

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Miniature Star Trek Set

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While at the G4 studios, I got a tour of their prop making facilities. Prop people are awesome because everyday they get requests like, “We need a miniature star trek set with a green screen.” Then they fulfill those requests… rad! – Link to photoset