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May 20, 2006

Broadcast your podcast

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Broadcast your podcast shows you how to make your own FM transmitter to broadcast your own music / audio show - "BYP offers podcasters the chance to transmit their podcasts on FM. BYP units are handmade FM transmitters made by BYP following the circuit design of micro radio pioneer Tetsuo Kogawa. By connecting a BYP unit to your computer or mp3 player podcasts can be transmitted on FM to your neighbourhood." - Link & how to build your own.

May 17, 2006

Now Hear This - Popular Science podcast

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Popular Science has a new podcast you can download / get via iTunes, the first episode is about project MyLifeBits "In the future, will everyone have photographic memories? Gordon Bell discusses his quest to digitally capture all the events of his life for a project called MyLifeBits. He predicts that advances in miniaturization and data storage will soon allow us all to have total recall." - Link.

May 10, 2006

HOW TO - Make a microphone blimp

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Gezortenplotz writes - "Wind across a microphone causes distortion and unwanted noise for videographers and nature recorders while taping outside. The purpose of the microphone 'blimp' is to attenuate the wind noise without interfering with the desired sound. Blimps are expensive. This project came in under $40. Mics are interchangeable in this blimp [if the mic's diameter will fit inside]. - Link.

Related:

HOW TO - Make a DIY mic windscreen (Zeppelin) on the cheap - Link.
Tons of microphone projects - Link.

April 18, 2006

Build an I-mic

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Michael writes - "I remember building this impressive microphone myself a few years back. A great low-cost harmonica microphone built from secondhand stuff anyone can find in their local supermarket plus a few components that can be found in any electronics shop. At the worst the parts should cost around $8." - Link.

April 8, 2006

HOW TO - CD quality field recording rig

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Atman writes - "...how to assemble a field recording system that is: battery powered, capable of six hours continuous record without recharge (and much more from the wall), CD quality (44.1 kHz 16 bit stereo), less than U$1000, and capable of being concealed in a handbag, backpack or jacket." - Link.

April 2, 2006

HOW TO - Make a homemade pop filter

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MAKE Flickr photo pool member Ihorner made a pop filter for audio recording, he writes - "I put this together from garden supports, and support hose. Total cost, $2.00 and I have enough material left over for 2 more. " - Link.

Related:
HOW TO Make Your Own $6 Microphone Pop-Filter - Link.

March 29, 2006

HOW TO - Make a DIY mic windscreen (Zeppelin) on the cheap

At a recent conference I met Joel Greenberg and saw that he made a great homemade windscreen, I asked him to cook up a how to, and he did! - this fuzzy project can cut wind noise for a fraction of the price of professional models. - Link.

March 21, 2006

Send us an ODEO (audio message)

ODEO has a neat new feature that will let you record right here and we'll get the audio - so try it out and send us some audio!

February 27, 2006

Rip, mix, burn - your phone calls

$900 is crazy expensive, but this is a really neat idea - "The FeaturePhone 175 can be used as an ordinary recorder at any time. It can be used as a dictating device and to record meetings by using the internal microphone, but it can also be connected to a special conference microphone, available as an option, or for that matter to any other microphone or audio source...Think of a FeaturePhone 175 CD as a database. Both the actual telephone and your PC can search the CD quickly using a range of criteria such as telephone number, date, time and duration of a call." You can also encrypt the phone call recordings - [via] Link.

February 13, 2006

Scientific American Magazine podcast

Outstanding! SciAm is doing a podcast! "In this episode, Scientific American editor-in-chief John Rennie reflects on the Korean stem cell debacle; the National Inventors Hall of Fame announces this year's inductees; and evolution defender Eugenie Scott discusses the importance of the decision in the recent Dover evolution trial. Also: hear outtakes from the CSI show you're never going to see on TV." [via] Link.

January 30, 2006

HOW TO - Make a Stereo Miniature Microphone and Battery Module...

Here are two great how-tos from the Sony mini disc forums "How to build a high quality stereo / binaural miniature microphone Required parts: - 2 omnidirectional miniature electret microphone capsules (get the best ones you can find / afford - your selection will have a major influence on the sound quality) - 3.5 mm stereo connector with cable, preferrably shielded - a few inches of heat shrinkable tubing, slightly larger diameter than the capsules" Link.

January 16, 2006

HOW TO - Simple Microphone Preamplifier

Tomi writes - "This is a simple microphone preamplifier circuit which you can use between your microphone and stereo amplifier. This circuit amplifier microphone suitable for use with normal home stereo amplifier line/CD/aux/tape inputs. This microphone preamplifier can take both dynamic and electret microphone inputs (preamplifier provides power foe electret microphone elements). The idea of this circuit is to keep the design as simple as possible to be easy to build. That was my goal when I needed a simple external microphone preamplifier for my mixer. The performance of the circuit is nothing superior but can be used with many not so serious projects." Link.

January 15, 2006

DIY Microphone Projects

Nice use of a mint tin! - "This site features projects and circuits for building stereo microphones from low-cost Panasonic electret microphone capsules. Included are Mid-Side, XY, and Blumlein microphone setups. In addition, there are interesting related circuits and links to sites with microphone information and parts sources." Link.

January 11, 2006

SploitCast - Podcast about security...

Good show for the security minded makers out there - "Welcome to SploitCast, the podcast for hackers, geeks, and the security paranoid. We are a group of students and IT professionals that have decided to start a downloadable talk show. SploitCast will discuss a wide variety of topics; these include, but are not limited to, new vulnerabilities, exploit code, security and technology news, and possibly even cute little bunny rabbits (but don't hold your breath). The SploitCast crew will also be conducting interviews and round table discussions with other members of the security industry." [via] Link.

January 1, 2006

This Day in Apple History!

MAKE is sponsoring "This Day in Apple History" over on Applematters - each day you can get an email of what happened in Apple history that day and also a daily podcast of "This Day in Apple History" (Click here to subscribe with iTunes). Link. They're giving away prizes too, a custom-engraved brand-new white 60GB 5G iPod engraved with the original Apple logo, an Apple Newton and an Apple II.. The iPod will be laser etched by MAKE magazine at Squid Labs.

December 25, 2005

DVD to iPod - Convert, the easy way (Mac)

This is the best application in the entire world for converting DVDs to iPod video, it's one click - "HandBrake Lite is a horribly-mangled abomination of HandBrake, jettisoning its non-crucial features with the one-track goal of creating iPod-sized movies from DVDs. You only really need to click two buttons to rip a DVD for iPod. It's as easy as that. Less stuff to read, and fewer confusing words. All videos are automatically resized to 320px wide. Widescreen movies are properly cropped before conversion. Smaller interface, easier to stash away on your screen somewhere." Link.

December 24, 2005

REAPER - Rapid Environment for Audio Prototyping

Justin Frankel (Winamp & Ninjam creator) has a new multitrack recording software called REAPER. This is a pretty good PC program to try out, small, fast, looks like it can tap in to your system sound for recording Skype or other VoIPs too, that could be useful for podcasts, etc. Don't fear the Reaper, it's free, for now. [via] Link.

December 13, 2005

Turn a RSS feed into a audio with Feed2Podcast

Robie from Pirateweather writes about a new service called Feed2Podcast that will turn your RSS feed (or any RSS feed) into a audio player so you can listen to the feed "They/we use new text to speech engine and your rss feed and turn your blog into a podcast instantly" It's a pretty good text to speech engine - here's what it sounds like with their preview audio player, click here to listen. Neat!

December 9, 2005

HOW TO - Make a podcast from a website

Want a robotic voice to read the news from Google on your music player? Here's how. Jeremy english writes - "This document explains the step used to create a podcast of google news. A bunch of standard unix tools are used to get the job done. You can get a copy of the scripts here. All of the work is done on my local machine then uploaded. The host, where my website sits, does not let me use my own executables. I will be skipping the process of uploading the files since that is unique to my webserver." Link.

December 3, 2005

Record podcasts with your browser on ODEO

The ODEO podcast studio is now open - I was on the beta, and it's really fun - "...everyone can now record audio with the browser-based Odeo Studio - or via the phone. Either way, your voice gets posted as an MP3 on an Odeo page, and from there you can easily share it or edit the title, etc. We've also made some changes to how the site looks and works, which we think make it simpler and move it closer to our vision of Podcasting for Regular People." Link. Anyone with a web browser can pretty much make their own audio show, excellent use of Macromedia Flash and Com server...

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