MAKE | Make: Live 3/23/11 – Kinetic Contraptions (video)

Make: Live ep05 is all about mechanics and motion! Thanks to our guests Lenore Edman, Windell Oskay, and Dustyn Roberts. If you missed a few minutes of the show, catch up on it here!

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Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories – Tabletop Mechanical Pong
Lenore Edman and Windell Oskay show off their http://www.evilmadscientist.com/article.php/pong“>tabletop representation of the 1972 video game PONG. They challenged themselves to realize the properties of the game in a physical space using motors, solenoids, and other surplus parts. Also:

Dustyn Roberts – Wind Lantern
Check out our visit with mechanical engineer and teacher Dustyn Roberts. She gives us a tour of the wind lantern, a turbine-powered LED mechanism and circuit from her book Making Things Move: DIY Mechanisms for Inventors, Hobbyists, and Artists. Also:

Wind Lantern tutorial on Make: Projects
Wind Lantern files on Thingiverse

Show notes:

Networked On Air Light project and video by Matt Richardson
Limor Fried on the cover of April’s DIY-themed WIRED
NASA Make: Challenge
Vote for your favorite open source hardware logo – the winner will be adopted by open source circuit makers! – Voting ends April 5th.
Maker Shed deal: Buy Electronics Pack 1 and get Make: Electronics book free
Maker Faire Detroit Call for Makers now open
Giveaway prizes: 5 continuous rotation servos, 2 steppers, and a digital multimeter!

Next show:
Make: Live 06 – Bikes
Wednesday April 13th, 9pm ET/6pm PT
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2 Responses to Make: Live 3/23/11 – Kinetic Contraptions (video)

HAL2000 on April 5th, 2012 at 5:27 pm said:

Why is the top video such total junk? Do you guys seriously not have a decent digital cam? The video is choppy and stuttering, and except for the commentator, the audio is almost unintelligible. My smartphone would be a huge improvement over this thing. Would have loved to really see the details on the mechanical bar, but this whole thing is just sad.

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Becky Stern on April 5th, 2012 at 7:04 pm said:

The interview with EMSL in this episode was over Skype with a not-so-great connection somewhere between the coasts. We tried lots of tricks over the course of Make: Live to bring you cool projects LIVE from all over the place, in this one case the archive didn’t live up to the live experience, check out other episodes (they get better as they go along) and cut us some slack. =] Also, EMSL has lots of info about the drink making unit on their site: http://www.evilmadscientist.com/article.php/barbot2011

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