MAKEZINE.COM
Makezine.com is the companion web-
site for MAKE magazine. Gadgeteer and
hacker Phil Torrone blogs daily on the See
site, pointing out DIY projects as well as The MAKE Flickr photo pool has hundreds of mem-
showcasing his own how-to solutions. bers, and you can see what we’re reviewing, hack-
Torrone also produces lively podcasts ing, and tweaking. Anyone can join and post their
and video how-to segments. You can photos, too. To join the MAKE Flickr photo pool, visit
find blogs, podcasts, and images from flickr.com/groups/make. If you don’t have a free
the home page of makezine.com. Flickr account, sign up and join the group. Usually,

it’s a good idea to “tag” your photos with the project you’re building, and then add them to the group

pool from your photo page.

“Part of the social goo that holds all our online efforts comes from the magic of tagging,” writes Torrone. “When I uploaded a photo to our Flickr group pool of a new biodiesel pump in Seattle, Wash., I tagged it ‘biodiesel.’ Little did I know that Rob Elam, the cofounder of the company that distributes the fuel, would discover my photos on Flickr and ping me. Within a day, we had scheduled a conversation and recorded it via Skype.”

Be sure to check out makezine.com; we’ll have multimedia content along with extras that compliment the magazine.

Blog Highlights

A jet-powered backpack! A contestant on a Japanese game show gets shot over a lake with pressurized water bottles strapped to his back. It looks like they’re all pressurized with bicycle pumps and then released at the same time. He goes really far and high.

An image uploaded to MAKE’s Flickr group

Run homebrew apps on your PSP. Learn how to run emulators, games, and homebrew applications on your U.S. PlayStation Portable PSP. I cooked up a quick how-to, pictures, and screenshots as well as a video to watch on how to do all this. We’re going to be able to play thousands of games and run hundreds of cool applications — all for free and all from the community of tinkerers out there looking to do more with their PSPs.

Hear

MAKE: Audio is a weekly interview and audio series,
Upgrade and Unlock a Cingular GSM Treo. Here is a available as podcasts. Download them or subscribe
step-by-step guide to unlocking your Cingular Treo with a podcast fetcher. Recent guests included Josh
and making it unbranded. This will also give you the Paul, author of Digital Video Hacks, and Christian
option of choosing another GSM provider. Einfeldt from DIYParts.org, who talks about keep-
ing computer hardware out of landfills. Torrone
also talks with his wife, Beth Goza, about the Lexus
RX400, a hybrid SUV, which gets 600 miles a tank.