• 2009
Make: Television

Summary MAKE: Television celebrates "Makers" - the inventors, artists, geeks and just plain everyday folks who mix new and old technology to create new-fangled marvels. The series encourages everyone to invent, reinvent, recycle, upcycle, and act up. Based on the popular Make magazine, each half-hour episode inspires millions to think, create, and, well, make. MAKE: Television premiered nationwide in January 2009 on Public Television stations and online at makezine.tv. View more details

  • 2009

Make: Television

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Dan McCormick Jake Von Slatt Carr Wilkerson Jessica Hobbs

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Genres : Biography Documentary

Release date : Jan 2, 2009

Countries of origin : United States

Official sites : Official site

Language : English

Production companies : Twin Cities Public Television Inc.

Summary MAKE: Television celebrates "Makers" - the inventors, artists, geeks and just plain everyday folks who mix new and old technology to create new-fangled marvels. The series encourages everyone to invent, reinvent, recycle, upcycle, and act up. Based on the popular Make magazine, each half-hour episode inspires millions to think, create, and, well, make. MAKE: Television premiered nationwide in January 2009 on Public Television stations and online at makezine.tv. View more details

Details

Genres : Biography Documentary

Release date : Jan 2, 2009

Countries of origin : United States

Official sites : Official site

Language : English

Production companies : Twin Cities Public Television Inc.

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Episodes

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Episode 1 • Jan 02, 2009
Bicycle Rodeo
Introducing Cyclecide, an inventive band of Bay Area performance artists who make creations out of materials from the junkyard. These Makers create everything from amusement park rides to outrageous bicycle contraptions to found-object sculpture.
Episode 2 • Jan 06, 2009
Aerial Kite Photography
Maker Chris Benton takes spectacular aerial photographs by rigging remote-controlled cameras to high flying kites. John Park builds a Burrito Blaster in the Maker Workshop and Mister Jalopy shows off his giant iPod. The Maker Channel features vegetable flutes, cool remote control robots, a latte foam printer and a simple technique to mod your vehicle to make it look 'official' for parking in loading zones.
Episode 3 • Jan 12, 2009
Steampunk
We enter the alternative universe of Jake Von Slatt, one of the central figures of Steampunk, an innovative style that turns today's technology into Victorian works of art. In the Maker Workshop, John Park shows us how to build a remote control pole camera for taking stunning aerial photographs. Cy Tymony demonstrates some sneaky uses for magnets and the Maker Channel presents a Theremin orchestra, a smoke ring generator, a pulse-jet bike, and a clever video- hacking way to drink beer on C-SPAN.
Episode 4 • Jan 22, 2009
Fire Sculpture
Fire Sculpture features the Flaming Lotus Girls at the Box Shop, a women-centric maker collaborative that creates gargantuan, fire-breathing sculptures. In the Workshop, John Park shows how to make a digital TV antenna from wire coat hangers as well as a video camera stabilizer. William Gurstelle explores the world of cable ties while Maker Channel contributors show off a motorized lounge chair, an eye-popping I/O brush, a wearable massage video game vest and a giant match made from thousands of match heads.
Episode 5 • Jan 28, 2009
Kinetic Wave Sculptures
Visionary maker Reuben Margolin creates elegant and hypnotic hanging wave sculptures. In the Maker Workshop John Park upcycles a discarded shopping cart into a stylish easy chair. Mister Jalopy details the unsung wonders of his 1950 Studebaker. The Maker Channel segment features a treadmill bike, a remote controlled foot stool, an aluminum sword foundry made by two 14 year olds, and a super hot beam that uses the Fresnel lens from a television to melt a security lock.
Episode 6 • Feb 05, 2009
Music Machines
We enter the plugged-in world of Tim Kaiser, a maker who fashions experimental musical instruments from scavenged objects. In the Workshop John Park builds a portable trebuchet from plastic plumbing pipe. Circuit bender, Bianca Pettis demystifies the art of soldering and Maker Channel contributors present a Smash Bat that takes moment-of-impact photos, a drum synthesizer played with Skittles, a pedal-powered tennis ball launcher, and an evil mouse that causes the cursor to misbehave whenever touched.
Episode 7 • Feb 12, 2009
Urban Projections
We bike along with Ali Momeni and his fleet of mobile video projectors that transform public spaces into real-time sound and light shows on a massive scale. In the Workshop, John Park combines a treadmill motor and PVC pipe to build a wind generator. William Gurstelle shows us some devices that make it easy to release heavy loads, and the Maker Channel presents creations from around the country including a balloon organ, ball-fetching autonomous robot, and a lie-detector wristband.
Episode 8 • Feb 19, 2009
Watershed Sculptures
We journey upstream with environmentalist Dan McCormick, a maker who crafts intricate watershed sculptures out of woven willow. In the Workshop, John Park shows how to build lively and inexpensive miniature robots. Mister Jalopy reveals the hidden treasures of his "Compact Childhood Museum." The Maker Channel segment features French fries shot from a spud gun, freeline skates that ride like a skateboard, an Asteroids game wrist watch, and a motorized wheel chair that shoots flames.
Episode 9 • Feb 26, 2009
Computer Music Making
CCRMA is a group of musical makers who stretch the sonic boundaries by turning personal computers into an electronic symphony. In the Workshop, John Park hacks a Wii controller to measure the stomach-churning forces of roller coasters. William Gurstelle demonstrates the use of a Japanese saw and Maker Channel contributors show off a Tesla coil electric guitar, a hand-implanted RFID for accessing security locks, an LED fan sign, and a solar-powered land gondola.
Episode 10 • Mar 05, 2009
Wearable Technology
Maker/designer Syuzi Pakhchyan at SparkLab bridges high tech and fashion with her space age clothing explorations. In the Workshop, John Park shows how to build a guitar out of a cigar box. Mister Jalopy explains the value of open source engineering when he opens up his Camaro's cassette player. The Maker Channel features a sunlight poem, a pedal-powered smoothie blender, a beautifully handmade Theremin instrument, a clock-hacked time-lapse camera, and a cellphone jammer.
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