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Rocketboom field correspondent Bre Pettis makes a secret compartment book for make.
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Are you worried about keeping your laptop safe during travel? Cathy Moore creates laptop envelopes. She originally made one for her daughter and now she finds all sorts of fantastic fabric and makes them. They've got quilting in them to pad them.
Jennifer Whalen wanted a horse that could walk around and so she went and found a Muybridge animation from the 1870's and traced the shapes in inkscape to create a design. Then she lasercut the shapes and we used istopmotion to make them walk all over her... and a buffalo to walk all over Bre.
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In this podcast, Bre brings in Matt, the screenprinting expert of etsy.com, to the Weekend Projects podcast.
Have you ever wanted to create your own t-shirt designs? Look no further! Don't forget to go and download the pdf to get all the details and supply lists. http://makezine.com/ podcast
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Bre Pettis teams up with Hardware Hacker Joe Grand to show you how to integrate LCDs and GPS into your electronics projects. Then they put these two things together on a basic stamp and create a portable GPS tracking system and go geocaching!
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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.
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his weekend, Bre Pettis shows you a few strategies for keeping an egg safe when thrown off a 4 story building. Paula Kieko breaks down the math and physics for you. If you want to have fun and get smarter, organize an egg drop in your neighborhood!
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In this Weekend Project Video Podcast for Make Magazine, Bre Pettis teaches how to make a wallet out of tape. It's fun, it's functional, and you probably already have the supplies on hand. Watch the video and go make a wallet, then take it to another level and make something out of tape that no-one has ever done!
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Windell Oskay of Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories joins me to show you how to make to squeeze the life out of your dead batteries by making a simple circuit called the Joule Thief!
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Make sure to check out the previous post full of instructions: http://www.makezine. com/blog/archive/200 6/07/make_podcast_we ekend_projects_1.htm l This project can be found in the print or digital version of Make: 06. The article in the magazine by William Gurstelle, was inspired by the folks over at otherpower.com who came up with a hamster powered generator.