Comments on: Make: television Episode 4: Fire Sculpture & DTV Antenna

By: Glen Wilson

Glen Wilson — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 00:13:27 +0000

I find after making 30+ of these things that if you need a “stand” do what i do, I use bits and pieces of PVC-1/2″ pipe and fittings to make a very sturdy stand and i attach the board to the upright PVC pipe with two self drilling screws. And depending on your paticular weather conditions, a few small bricks will do nicely as ballast when put onto the “legs” of the PVC
stand. and thanks to the MAKE tv channel that made this little gem possible!! cudos from
tucson,AZ!!!

By: David Williams

David Williams — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 00:35:00 +0000

After building this antenna, I went from 21 fuzzy channels to 111 clear (most of them) channels. The store-bought antenna just went into the scrap parts box.

By: Jenifer

Jenifer — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Could you please, please, pretty please, have the podcast feed for NON ITUNES subscribers somewhere in the shownotes or on the blog. I had to Google and try different links in order to find it.

Some people are ‘open source/free libre/creative commons’ users, IE: Not bound to the iCult and DRM Proprietary chains. We invent and make and create because we believe in freedom, and having one subscription choice is not freedom. There are so many other feed types you could have, just put it on the blog!

By: Phillip Torrone

Phillip Torrone — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

@Jenifer – at this time we don’t have the resources for dozens of different feeds so we try to do the one that most folks will be able to use and view. if you’d like to create a new file for us for each episode and upload it we’d love the help. please specify what other types of feeds you’re looking for…

that said there are feeds that are not itunes that have exactly what you want… here’s the RSS 2.0 feed.

http://blog.makezine.com/archive/make_podcast/index.xml

all of the show links are there, PDF downloads, video downloads, etc.

By: anachrocomputer

anachrocomputer — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I’ve just downloaded the M4V file, via the link above. Since I’m in the UK, and we don’t get Make TV on any of the channels here, the only way I can watch the show is by downloading this file (I’m not an iTunes user, nor can I watch online). The first three episodes worked really well, and I’ve watched them a few times, but in this case the link points to only an excerpt from the programme, the Maker Profile (fire sculpture). Is this intentional, or is there a link somewhere to the complete show, with all the Maker-to-Maker and Maker Workshp segments included?

By: Make: television

Make: television — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Thanks for the catch Anachrocomputer, we seem to have uploaded the wrong file. Check the link now, the correct file should be there.

By: anachrocomputer

anachrocomputer — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Great! That’s the full episode now. Thanks for fixing that so quick! Now I have a new episode of Make TV to take home and watch…

By: tweekskratch

tweekskratch — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

so where is the diagram for the tv antenna? lol

By: Phil

Phil — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Your link yields this:

This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below.

I’m on a dialup, and videos are worthless to me. Perhaps you could include links in your site for non-videe info??

Can you please post the DTB antenna link for the PDF file. I got everything but the length of the board.

Thanks!
Phil

By: John Park

John Park — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

He’s the link:

http://cachefly.oreilly.com/make/television/04/DTV_Antenna_FINAL.pdf