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A TV Show Based On MAKE Magazine
ptorrone writes "Make: television debuted online and on public television (broadcast / cable tv). The series encourages everyone to invent, reinvent, recycle, upcycle, and act up. Based on the popular Make magazine, each half-hour episode hopes to inspire viewers to think, create, and, well, make. Each episode can be viewed or downloaded DRM-free, in HD on makezine.tv — the show is also available on Vimeo, YouTube, blip.tv and iTunes."
Until the recession. There are stories all over the internet about how Goodwill/Salvation army is booming and how auto mechanics are seeing everyone repairing their old cars to extend the life.
I'm hoping that changes the attitude of most Americans where 'old' isn't necessarily bad.
@gothmolly - "real engineers" and people doing "real engineering" usually agree that every single component does not need to be 100% understood top to bottom, especially in task based learning. in time some components will be explored more, others may not.
sometimes it's more about the output for the specific task - the point is that it was the right choice for this project and the article was about a task (espresso machine) not about PID control, but we didn't just stop there. there are many PID resources on MAKE and many PID projects.
the articles *do* have many resources for PID, but in print, where space is limted, we utilize our site - that's where we can expand upon topics.
MAKE magazine have been doing Youtube shorts for quite a while now, which in itself is just bits of the magazine 'acted out' in fast motion, while leaving out a couple of details, like exact measurments for some things, or model numbers - refering you instead to the magazine (which you have to go buy)
The fact they have a TV show means it'll probably be just an extension of this philosophy and - call me cynical - will just be another advertising platform (confirmed by the fact that being able to 'view the TV show' links at the top send you to the MAKE Youtube shorts channel)
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for being subtle.
@that this is not und - every single volume of MAKE has source code, schematics and our site has tens of thousands of electronics articles.
while you might say some projects are "novelty" they're not - taking apart a child's toy to understand how it works, how it can be modded and documenting all of it is very important. some articles are to spark the minds of future makers, others are "hardcore" and include hundreds of pages of data sheers on on our site, firmware, schematics and more.
if you'd like i can provide hundreds of examples of extremely complex and well documented projects that include schematics - on a similar note, MAKE has the largest open source hardware online store on the web. every single kit that's OSH is documented on MAKE and has the source / schematics.
i think you didn't take a good look around or looks at all of MAKE.
On opening my oscilloscope, you will find a pair of warnings. The large one at the top says "DANGER HIGH VOLTAGE." The one underneath reads "It is desirable that only silver bearing solder be used on the ceramic terminals and for tinning the iron. Ordinary tin-lead solder may be used but repeated use will break the solder-to-ceramic bond. See your instruction manual." Above that is a small roll of silver-bearing solder.
I wish it was still the case that the owner of a tool was expected to know how to repair and maintain it. Of course, the scope in question is older than I am. For the curious, it's a Tektronix 561A. It uses vacuum tubes. You can find a picture of the insides here.