Charlie writes – “Very cool article from 1939 about the first programmable electronic sign in Times Square (think the grandfather of the Jumbotron). Every single change of a light, and there are 27,000 of them, is punched as a row on a 160 column roll of paper that gets fed through the vast machine.” Link.
Inventor Underground (a place for inventors to go if they didn’t make the cut on ABC’s new American Inventor show) has a new podcast and the first TV ad from American Inventor. I’m about to hop on a plane and don’t have time to comment on this yet, so how about you check it out […]
Steven from Nomadic Research Labs is looking for some Makers to work on the Microshop – “A number of paying gigs are now available to fast-track the completion of the Microship project: we’re looking for fiberglassers, aluminum fabricators, machinists, fabrics wizards, sailboat riggers, and electronics geeks. If you have proven experience and are available for […]
Reminder: MAKE will be at the The Happening: Mixed-Reality Party in DC on Saturday and also in Second Life so you can attend virtually and for free on Mac, Win and Linux… – pictured, what I have to fit in my alloted carry on baggage. Details about the event here – Link.
Thanks Mr. Magazine! Link.
Travis writes in with some good news, features, and a contest on TechnicalVideoRental, a video rental service for Makers – “…we released our new website, which supports customer ratings, viewer feedback, AND editorial reviews…We’re very happy that in two weeks we’ve already gotten over 70 reviews, good, bad, and ugly. From the “do yourself a […]
You probably noticed we updated the site quite a bit and there is a lot of new things to explore (and more coming) so, now is a a good time to add MAKE to your favorite way to view us: Kinja, My AOL, MyYahoo, Google, Bloglines, Rojo, Newsgator or Pluck (or any other feed reader […]
