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MakeShift 14: Analysis, Commentary, and Winners
by Lee D. Zlotoff;
September 21, 2008
MakeShift 14: Jay L. Stern's Most Plausible Winning Entry
Jay L. Stern's entry was awarded the MakeShift Master Plausible award for his solution to MakeShift 14.
by Lee D. Zlotoff;
September 21, 2008
MakeShift 14: T. Daniel's Most Creative Winning Entry
T. Daniel's entry was awarded the MakeShift Master Creative award for his solution to MakeShift 14.
by Lee D. Zlotoff;
September 21, 2008
MakeShift 14: Sean Rhinehart's Honorable Mention Entry
Sean Rhinehart's entry was awarded an Honorable Mention award for his solution to MakeShift 14.
by Lee D. Zlotoff;
September 21, 2008
MakeShift 14: Bill Dallman's Honorable Mention Entry
Bill Dallman's entry was awarded an Honorable Mention award for his solution to MakeShift 14.
by Lee D. Zlotoff;
September 21, 2008
MakeShift 13: Analysis, Commentary, and Winners
by Lee D. Zlotoff;
June 17, 2008
MakeShift 13: Stuart Conner's Most Creative Winning Entry
Stuart Conner's entry was awarded the MakeShift Master Creative award for his solution to MakeShift 13.
by Lee D. Zlotoff;
June 17, 2008
MakeShift 13: James Furmato's Most Plausible Winning Entry
James Furmato's entry was awarded the MakeShift Master Plausible award for his solution to MakeShift 13.
by Lee D. Zlotoff;
June 17, 2008
MakeShift 12: Nisse Taunt's Most Creative Winning Entry
Nisse Taunt's entry was awarded the MakeShift Master Creative award for his solution to MakeShift 12.
by Lee D. Zlotoff;
March 14, 2008
MakeShift 12: Analysis, Commentary, and Winners
by Lee D. Zlotoff;
March 14, 2008
MakeShift 12: Max Lee's Honorable Mention Entry
Max Lee's entry was awarded the MakeShift Master Creative award for his solution to MakeShift 12.
by Lee D. Zlotoff;
March 14, 2008
MakeShift 12: Damon John Hoxworth's Most Plausible Winning Entry
Damon John Hoxworth's entry was awarded the MakeShift Master Plausible award for his solution to MakeShift 12.
by Lee D. Zlotoff;
March 14, 2008
MakeShift 11: Analysis, Commentary, and Winners
by Lee D. Zlotoff;
January 04, 2008
MakeShift 11: Brian Lannon's Most Plausible Winning Entry
Brian Lannon's entry was awarded the MakeShift Master Plausible award for his solution to MakeShift 11.
by Lee D. Zlotoff;
January 04, 2008
MakeShift 11: Emile Daigle's Most Creative Winning Entry
Emile Daigle's entry was awarded the MakeShift Master Creative award for his solution to MakeShift 11.
by Lee D. Zlotoff;
January 04, 2008
Make and Craft Embrace Recycled Paper
October 04, 2007
MakeShift 10: Peter Davoust's Most Creative Winning Entry
by Lee D. Zlotoff;
September 25, 2007
MakeShift 10: Mark Boyd's Most Plausible Winning Entry
Mark Boyd's entry was awarded the MakeShift Master Plausible award for his solution to MakeShift 10.
by Lee D. Zlotoff;
September 25, 2007
MakeShift 10: Ray Gibson's Honorable Mention Entry
by Lee D. Zlotoff;
September 25, 2007
MakeShift 10: Analysis, Commentary, and Winners
by Lee D. Zlotoff;
September 07, 2007
MakeShift 09: Analysis, Commentary, and Winners
by Lee D. Zlotoff;
June 18, 2007
MakeShift 09: Jonathan Deber and Karen Dawson's Most Creative Winning Entry
June 18, 2007
MakeShift 09: David Glass' Most Plausible Winning Entry
David Glass' entry was awarded the MakeShift Master Plausible award for his solution to MakeShift 09.
by Lee D. Zlotoff;
June 18, 2007
Open Source Hardware: What Is It?
by Phillip Torrone;
May 04, 2007
MakeShift 08: Analysis, Commentary, and Winners
by Lee D. Zlotoff;
March 30, 2007
MakeShift 08: Ben Bond's Most Creative Winning Entry
Benjamin Bond's entry was awarded the MakeShift Master Creative award for his solution to MakeShift 08.
by Lee D. Zlotoff;
March 30, 2007
MakeShift 08: John Hannan's Most Plausible Winning Entry
John Hannan's entry was awarded the MakeShift Master Creative award for his solution to MakeShift 08.
by Lee D. Zlotoff;
March 30, 2007
Unsafe At Any Amperage?
Behind the scenes of our high-voltage dilemma: whether to publish a dangerously cool project in MAKE magazine's "Fringe" issue.
by Tom Anderson, Gareth Branwyn, Shawn Connally, Dale Dougherty, Mark Frauenfelder, Joe Grand, Saul Griffith, William Gurstelle, Bunnie Huang, Tom Igoe, Mister Jalopy, Steve Lodefink, John MacNeill, David Pescovitz, Charles Platt, Paul Spinrad, Phillip Torrone;
March 16, 2007
MakeShift 07: Analysis, Commentary, and Winners
by Lee D. Zlotoff;
January 05, 2007
MakeShift 07: Erik Brown's Most Plausible Winning Entry
by Lee D. Zlotoff;
January 05, 2007
MakeShift 07: Greg Hora's Most Creative Winning Entry
Greg Hora's entry was awarded the MakeShift Master Creative award for his solution to MakeShift 07.
by Lee D. Zlotoff;
January 05, 2007
MakeShift 06: Analysis, Commentary, and Winners
Lee D. Zlotoff offers his commentary and analysis about the MAKE 06 MakeShift challenge. Lee then announces the Most Plausible and Most Creative winning entries.
by Lee D. Zlotoff;
August 25, 2006
MakeShift 06: Bobby Joe Snyder's Most Creative Winning Entry
Bobby Joe Snyder's entry was awarded the MakeShift Master Creative award for his solution to MakeShift 06.
by Lee D. Zlotoff;
August 25, 2006
MakeShift 06: Vinny Forgione's Most Plausible Winning Entry
Vinny Forgione's entry won the MakeShift Master Plausible award for his solution to MakeShift 06.
by Lee D. Zlotoff;
August 25, 2006
MakeShift 05: Analysis, Commentary, and Winners
In 1960, Woody Norris read a contest announcement in a magazine that changed his life and set him on the path of being a world-class inventor. The announcement challenged readers to submit a plausible but fictional account of a supposed new invention to be published as an April Fool’s joke. Woody took up the challenge. Here is the interesting part: during the process of trying to come up with a product that was both plausible but a bit “out there,” he came up with what would ultimately be his first successful invention. The rest is history.
Coming full circle, Woody is now the one throwing down the gauntlet, challenging you to prove your makeshift mettle by staying alive for 48 hours in bank vault with limited oxygen. Over 100 of you answered the call, and Woody and I had to break open the engineering and chemistry texts to evaluate a good number of the submissions. In the end, Woody selected two winners and two honorable mentions. To say that selecting two winners from the pool of entries was difficult would be to understate matters--it was flat-out hard.
by William Lidwell; July 07, 2006
MakeShift 05: Woody's Solution
In MAKE 05, Woody Norris challenged you to prove your makeshift mettle by staying alive for 48 hours in a bank vault with limited oxygen. Over 100 of you answered the call, but before he would evaluate any of the responses, he felt like he had to submit himself to the challenge and solve his own problem. Woody’s Solution is included here for your review.
by Woody Norris;
July 07, 2006
MakeShift 05: Cameron Stoker's Most Creative Winning Entry
Cameron Stoker's entry was awarded the MakeShift Master Creative award for his solution to MakeShift 05.
by William Lidwell;
July 07, 2006
MakeShift 05: Scott Baker's Most Plausible Winning Entry
Scott Baker's entry won the MakeShift Master Plausible award for his solution to MakeShift 05.
by William Lidwell;
July 07, 2006
MakeShift 05: C.T. Nak's "Nigel Holmes" Honorable Mention
C.T. Nak won the “Nigel Holmes” Honorable Mention award for his solution to MakeShift 05.
by William Lidwell;
July 07, 2006
MakeShift 05: Erik Brown's "Emile Gagnan" Honorable Mention
Erik Brown won the "Emile Gagnan" Honorable Mention award for his solution to MakeShift 05.
by William Lidwell;
July 07, 2006
More than just a foreword to Wireless Hacks, Second Edition (by Rob Flickenger and Roger Weeks) Glenn Fleishman's praise of the book reads like paean to the maker/hacker spirit in general:
Wireless Hacks feels more like a device constructed by the love child of The Professor from Gilligan’s Island and Mr. Spock: it beeps, it twitters, there are coconut shreds, and then, surprisingly, it produces a glass of tea out of thin air or transports several people to geosynchronous orbit. ... Wireless Hacks isn’t about breaking technology to serve your needs. Rather, it’s about bending it. So much of today’s wireless networking hardware, software, and firmware has been carefully tailored to suit what the manufacturer or service provider feels you are entitled to do with it. But we own the tech and, for unlicensed networks, we own the airwaves. Wireless Hacks stands up, raises its hand, and says, "Excuse me, I don’t buy into your world view."
Fleishman concludes that the book “could as easily been titled It’s My Equipment, Dammit,” which we like to think is true of all Hacks books and every issue of MAKE.
by Glenn Fleishman; May 10, 2006
Foreword from Greasemonkey Hacks
In his foreword to Mark Pilgrim’s Greasemonkey Hacks, Aaron Boodman (creator and lead developer of Greasemonkey), speaks of the pride he takes in the association of the word hacks with his creation:
It has been occasionally noted that Greasemonkey is a hacker's tool. I take some pride in that, since I come from a family of relentless hackers.
He continues with a touching account of his own family of hackers, going all the way back to the need to hack that's been so central to the evolution of our species (humans, that is, not just hackers, which, contrary to popular opinion, does not constitute a separate species).
Finally, he ends with a sort of call to arms that Greasemonkey promises:
The next time you find yourself frustrated by a broken website, you won't have to live with it. You'll have the tools and knowledge to fix it yourself.
I'd like to think this spirit is central to all Hacks books and to every issue of MAKE (and, dare I say it, the evolution of our species).
by Aaron Boodman; May 08, 2006
Lejos
May 08, 2006
Maker Faire Photos
May 08, 2006
MakeShift 04: Analysis, Commentary, and Winners
Few people know that part of the hiring process at Dean Kamen's research and development firm, DEKA, is a sort of real-time MakeShift challenge: applicants are brought into a large conference room where Kamen and a dozen of his top engineers rapid fire seemingly unsolvable problems at the aspiring makers in order to observe and evaluate their problem-solving prowess. It is trial by problem solving, and the faint of brain need not apply. It is in this same spirit that Dean's team offered the MakeShift problem for Make 04: a rural setting in Mexico, summer drought conditions, and a family in need of a water irrigation solution ASAP.
by William Lidwell;
March 16, 2006
MakeShift 04: Matthew Sparks' Most Plausible Winning Entry
by William Lidwell;
March 16, 2006
MakeShift 04: Mark Trageser's Most Creative Winning Entry
Mark Trageser's entry won for "Most Creative" in the Makeshift column in volume 04.
by William Lidwell;
March 16, 2006
MakeShift 04: Vinnie Forgione's "Zeno of Elea" Honorable Mention
by William Lidwell;
March 16, 2006
MakeShift 04: Bobby Joe Snyder's "Hans Christian Andersen" Honorable Mention
by William Lidwell;
March 16, 2006
More from Woody Norris
William Lidwell interviewed the award winning inventor, Woody Norris, for MAKE 05. In this exclusive web extra, the conversation with Norris continues. Learn Norris' views on inspiring creativity, selling yourself along with your inventions, learning when to quit, and why inventors shouldn't be afraid someone will steal their idea.
by William Lidwell;
February 01, 2006
How To: Make Enhanced Podcasts
Here's everything you need to know about enhanced podcasts: how to get them, how to make them, and some fun ideas for what you can do with them.
by Phillip Torrone;
January 03, 2006
How To: Get MSN Filter News (or Any RSS) on a SPOT Watch
MSN Filter is a new blog with some pretty good posts about tech, music, etc. Since it is from MSN, I assumed that it would be a channel I could add to my MSN Direct SPOT watch. But no, MSN Filter isn't one of the pre-chosen available options on the watch. Here's how to get MSN Filter, or any other news via RSS, onto a SPOT watch.
by Phillip Torrone;
January 03, 2006
How To: iPod Nano Hacking
The iPod nano isn't as hackable as its older cousins (yet). But you can still do a few things to make it your own, such as change the text strings, the fonts, and the graphics that appear onscreen. This article will show you how to use a PC to customize the text and fonts on your iPod nano, and how to use a Mac to customize the graphics.
by Phillip Torrone;
January 03, 2006
How To: Play Video on a Pre-Video iPod (iPod photo)
The newest, fifth-generation iPods play video, but you can also play videos with sound on your "old" iPod photo (or fourth-gen iPod mini), using the latest version of podzilla (Linux for the iPod). Here's a quick how-to on installing podzilla, using a Mac, so you can watch videos and do other fun things.
by Phillip Torrone;
January 03, 2006
How To: DIY GPS tracking with Mologogo
by Phillip Torrone;
December 20, 2005
How To: Run Homebrew Apps on Your PlayStation Portable (PSP)
Want to do more with your PSP than just play prepackaged, commercial titles? Thanks to the community of PSP tinkerers out there, there are emulators, cool homebrew applications, and thousands of games that you can run on your PSP for free. Liberating your PSP is easy; here's a quick how-to.
by Phillip Torrone;
November 21, 2005
How To: Make a Windows Vista/Longhorn-Style Auxiliary Display
This article shows how to make your own laptop auxiliary display. It describes a great and cheap way to mount an LCD onto a PC case, and how to use Konfabulator (which is now free) to build a versatile interface "widget" that runs on the display.
by Phillip Torrone;
November 21, 2005
Inside a Wolfgang Puck self-heating can...
by Phillip Torrone;
November 21, 2005
How To: Make a Powerbook in to a Wi-Fi access point!
by Phillip Torrone;
November 21, 2005
How To: Liberate the Sony Librie E-ink reader
by Phillip Torrone;
November 21, 2005
How To: Make an RSS Widget
Widgets are great--there is no denying it. Arranging these small, lightweight utilities on your Mac OS X Dashboard desktop puts lots of useful and fun possibilities at your fingertips and eyeballs. But when a widget you want doesn't exist, there is only one thing to do: make it. Jake McKenzie shows you how to make a Mac Dashboard widget for Mac OS X Tiger that displays any RSS feed you want, customized any way you want.
by Jake McKenzie;
November 21, 2005
More High-Speed Photos
With so many great photos to choose from, we had a hard time deciding which ones to put in MAKE 04. Here's some more that we loved, but couldn't fit into the magazine.
November 02, 2005
MakeShift 03: Analysis, Commentary, and Winners
In many respects, this was the most difficult MakeShift to date. No prior art to consider. No books to read. As with most MakeShift-type problems, the variables affecting the solution were typically complex and fuzzy in nature. The best one can do with such problems is strive to understand them as much as possible and then employ strategies like redundancy, factors of safety, and weak links in your design to offset the risks of all the things you don't know. Here is an overview of the winners of the MakeShift 03 challenge.
by William Lidwell;
November 01, 2005
MakeShift 03: Chris Rovers' Most Plausible Winning Entry
Creative use of Quikrete, duct tape, and chicken wire—it doesn't get much better. Here is Chris Rovers' MakeShift Master Most Plausible winning entry.
by William Lidwell;
November 01, 2005
MakeShift 03: Dan Rubenfield's Most Creative Winning Entry
Though chicken wire would be visible when viewed from rooftops or from ground level with binoculars, its impact could be minimized through careful application and creative use of the cape to hide it. A good chicken-wire wrap would have enormous tensile strength and should work well even if the fiberglass shell collapses. Short and simple.
by William Lidwell;
November 01, 2005
MakeShift 03: Andy Seubert's "Rebar of Seville" Honorable Mention
Rebar is the one material at a construction site that is both ample and cheap enough to "borrow" without getting into too much trouble. Here is Andy Seubert's "Rebar of Seville" Honorable Mention.
by William Lidwell;
November 01, 2005
MakeShift 03: Vinnie Forgione's "Chikofsky & Cross" Honorable Mention
Vinnie's design makes fine use of common construction site materials to create a sturdy structure with plenty of strength and redundancy. Here is Vinnie Forgione's "Chikofsky & Cross" Honorable Mention.
by William Lidwell;
November 01, 2005
MakeShift 03: Bobby Joe Snyder's "Factor of Safety" Honorable Mention
Use of the lifting strap is simple, and securing the cow to the crane cable pretty much guarantees that it isn't going anywhere. Here is Bobby Joe Snyder's "Factor of Safety" Honorable Mention.
by William Lidwell;
November 01, 2005
Circuit-Bending: Build an Incantor
Build an Incantor, a classic circuit-bending project that turns an old Speak & Read toy into a looping, stuttering, sound effects synthesizer.
by Reed Ghazala;
October 24, 2005
Circuit-Bending: External Controllers
Add a port and two plug-in-able external controllers to the circuit-bent SK-5 keyboard project in Make 04.
by Sabastian Boaz, Cristiana Yambo;
October 24, 2005
More Kits for the Holidays
In MAKE 04 we featured some great kit gift ideas in the article, Kits for the Holidays. But we didn't have room for all the kits we found, so here's another round for elves with makers on their list.
by Arwen O'Reilly Griffith;
October 20, 2005
More from Dean Kamen
William Lidwell interviewed übermaker, technology visionary, and science evangelist Dean Kamen for MAKE 04. In this exclusive web extra, the conversation with Kamen continues. Learn Kamen's views on wasting time, creativity, Stirling engines, and his advice to Makers.
by William Lidwell;
October 13, 2005
Kid-Tested Haunted House Tricks
Eric Wilhelm's Halloween Haunted House Controller project in Make 03 explained how to build a multi-relay controller board that synchronizes lights, sounds, and other effects with soundtracks playing through Winamp on a laptop. This article describes some of the scare scenarios that Eric has staged using this controller, plus some other kid-tested tricks from haunted houses he's built.
by Eric J. Wilhelm;
October 07, 2005
Reigniting Sparqs
Sparqs founder Tim Panagos discusses the inspiration and implementation behind his "Extreme DIY Industrial Arts Club," which has since sadly had to shut its doors due to lack of funding. Sparqs was housed in a warehouse space supplied with equipment like plasma cutters, welding rigs, and table saws, intended to be rented out to small businesses and inventors by day and hobbyists at night and on weekends.
by D.C. Denison;
October 04, 2005
Eleven Days Gone
The eye of Hurricane Katrina passed over MAKE contributor Dave Prochnow's home in Mississippi. Dave describes what happened and how his maker ethic, and a few handy tools, served him well in times of distress.
by Dave Prochnow;
September 12, 2005
MaxiMoog: A tribute to the man who gave us so many good vibrations
Bob Moog is a giant in both technology and music, the two softest spots in the hearts of so many MAKE readers. Jimmy Guterman was making plans to visit Moog and interview him for MAKE when we learned he was battling cancer. Moog died yesterday, August 21, 2005.
by Jimmy Guterman;
August 22, 2005
MakeShift 02: Analysis, Commentary, and Winners
Tragically, the MakeShift 02 challenge is all too plausible: the United Nations estimates that approximately 1.1 billion people in the world are forced to drink from unsafe water sources. That is what this MakeShift challenge is about: applying creativity to solve an important global problem, and educating others as to how it can be done.
Thanks to all the MAKE readers who took on this very difficult and important
challenge. Here's an analysis of several proposed solutions, and the winning entries for Makeshift 02.
by William Lidwell;
August 08, 2005
MakeShift 02: Adam Thornton's "Most Plausible" Winning Entry
Adam Thornton's distillation proposal for this challenge wins the prize for "Most Plausible" solution in Makeshift 02.
by William Lidwell;
August 08, 2005
MakeShift 02: Jesse Crossen's "Most Creative" Winning Entry
Able to identify and leverage the
natural filters surrounding the village, Jesse Crossen's solution bypassed the time and complexity of purifying the
water and solved the problem straight away.
by William Lidwell;
August 08, 2005
MakeShift 02: Vinnie Forgione's "Schmutzdecke" Honorable Mention
Vinnie Forgione suggested a straightforward sand filter with a more feasible way of making activated charcoal in a two-day time period.
by William Lidwell;
August 08, 2005
MakeShift 02: "A.A.B. Bussy" Honorable Mention by M. Cowell, N. Cain, B. Park, and B. Carroll
This group effort by Mac Cowell, Nick Cain, Barratt Park, and Brandon Carroll includes dissolving iron in the mix as an interesting way to deal with the arsenic.
by William Lidwell;
August 08, 2005
MakeShift 02: Mark Kissler's "Eichhorina Crassipes" Honorable Mention
Mark Kissler's entry showed great analysis, approach, design, and presentation. The addition of the water hyacinth virtually eliminates the need for activated charcoal, which makes this approach robust.
by William Lidwell;
August 08, 2005
The Fascination of Extreme Science
Charles Platt, author and photographer of "A Fusion Reactor for the Rest of Us" in MAKE Volume 03, explains the allure of long-shot scientific research by individuals and small groups.
by Charles Platt;
July 21, 2005
How To: Make Square Holes in Aluminum Sheet Metal
Why would you want to make a square or rectangular hole in aluminum sheet metal? The short answer is that engineers are perverse, but there are other reasons: to make something that slides in or mounts on a hole without rotating, to make a picture frame, or perhaps you just happen to have a round peg that seems lonely. Here are 14 methods of making square holes for a variety of situations.
by Nick Carter;
July 21, 2005
Make a Glowing, Wearable, EL-Wire, Blinky Light Using Open Source Tools
DIY project describes how I turned a piece of schwag from the Dark Side, a corporate-logo backpack, into a blinking, glowing beacon of open source supremacy. You'll learn how to use electroluminescent (EL) wire, program and burn a PIC microcontroller, and build your own printed circuit board PCB)--all using exclusively open source tools.
by Mikey Sklar;
June 24, 2005
MakeShift 01: Analysis, Commentary, and Winners
The first MakeShift gauntlet was thrown down to take the measure of MAKE readers — an intractable conundrum to separate the intellectual and creative wheat from the chaff: a dead car battery in the middle of nowhere; an eight-hour time limit before deadly weather sets in; nothing but your wits, camping gear, and leftover snacks to solve the problem. The result? MAKE readers answered the challenge with audacity and vigor!
by William Lidwell;
May 13, 2005
MakeShift 01: Joe O'Brien's "Most Plausible" Winning Entry
Joe O'Brien submitted the winning entry in our MakeShift Master, Plausible category. No doubt the simplest and most plausible solution is using the aspirin to stimulate the electrolyte for most situations. If it doesn’t work, you have the time to move on to more creative approaches.
May 13, 2005
MakeShift 01: Jim Gasbarro's "Most Creative" Winning Entry
Frictional losses in Jim Gasbarro's assembly (wheel to pulley) will almost certainly require more than an hour of spinning, but that's a quibble. His analysis is dead on, and his approach is the soundest of the alternator bunch. Definitely a guy you want in the car when your battery dies in the middle of nowhere. Congratulations Jim!
by William Lidwell;
May 13, 2005
MakeShift 01: Sean Cahill's "Alessandro Volta" Honorable Mention
I am skeptical that a battery could be made to work given the time and circumstances. This skepticism wouldn't apply if Sean Cahill were in the SUV, however, as I am convinced that he is Volta reincarnated. An excellent submission and brilliant analysis! If anyone could make it work, I think he could. Congratulations Sean!
by William Lidwell;
May 13, 2005
MakeShift 01: Melanie DuPont's "No Stone Left Unturned" Honorable Mention
So I thought I had a pretty good sense of what attention to detail meant until I read Melanie DuPont's entry; no risk of problem-solving tunnel vision with her around! Her battery probably couldn't generate the C/V to get the car going in 8 hours, but no worries--Melanie is clearly ready for any and all contingencies.
by William Lidwell;
May 13, 2005
MakeShift 01: Phil Salkie's "Rube Goldberg" Honorable Mention
Phil Salkie is a bit nutty. The bow-drill alternator crank? Impractical. Hanging your partner over a cliff as a counterweight? Disturbed. Despite these eccentricities, his analysis is as brilliant as it is entertaining. Congratulations Phil!
by William Lidwell;
May 13, 2005
Adding Multi-Track Capability to Your Magnetic Stripe Reader
I paid $30 for a Omron V3A-4, which is a single-track reader. But you can modify it to read all three standard magstripe tracks, for free!
by Billy Hoffman;
April 25, 2005
Free TiVo: Build a Better DVR out of an Old PC
Build a combination Digital Video Recorder (DVR), music server, and game machine out of an old computer. It does far more than a commercial TiVo, and there's no monthly fee.
by Ken Sharp;
April 25, 2005
MAKE: How-To's
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April 22, 2005
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