Fwd: Make News No. #12

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> Make News No. #12 – MAKE subscriptions now available!
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> May 6, 2005
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> There's a chance, hopefully a tiny one, that a bill might be passed
> prohibiting the National Weather Service from "competing" with
> commercial
> services like AccuWeather. What does this mean? The free weather data
> we
> all get on the web might go away. Many of us use the National Weather
> Service on the web, on our phones, and in our applications. What can we
> do? We can call Senator Santorum's phone number (202-224-6324) and
> suggest
> that we have free access to the data we have already paid for, of
> course,
> but there's something else we can do. We can make our own.
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> In true Maker spirit, we're trying out a Davis Instruments weather
> station
> for an upcoming review in MAKE, and we've installed it on the roof at
> the
> O'Reilly campus in Sebastopol, CA. It was pretty easy to assemble and
> we're getting some cool reports from it.
>
> We're using the Vantage Pro 2 wireless model, with WeatherLink software
> that downloads data from the console and uploads it to the web.
>
> There's a Flickr set of photos showing some of the assembly and
> installation.
>
> For now, we're posting charts of current conditions and data reports.
> The
> reporting templates are customizable, and we've replaced the default
> Java
> ticker at the top with a static view of readings for the current month.
> It's been pretty easy to customize those templates.
>
> We're also posting data to NOAA as part of their citizen weather
> observer
> program – here's our station report:
> http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/wxpage.cgi?cw3724. If you can't beat them
> … make your own?
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> MAKE: Weather –
> http://makezine.com/weatherlink/
> More about our Weather Experiment –
> http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2005/04/davis_vantage_p.html
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> MAKE: Audio
> This week's MAKE: Audio is a special one for all you gamers out there!
> We
> interviewed Jerry Holkins, also known as Tycho, from Penny-Arcade at
> the
> February 2005 Emerald City ComicCon in Seattle, WA. If you're a fan of
> Penny-Arcade or just want to know how they make all those amazing
> comics,
> be sure to tune in to this show!
> http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/make_podcast/
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> MAKE: Blog
> This week on the MAKE: Blog, we hit the pavement hard and serve up a
> lot
> of automotive hacks. Our heads are currently working day and night on
> the
> third volume of MAKE, which has a lot of cool car and transportation
> hacks
> amongst our usual tinkering and projects.
>
> If you have an MP3 player you want to hook directly into the AUX of a
> car,
> this how-to might help – DIY Pioneer AUX Input (MP3 to Car). Maybe
> you'd
> rather build a bike that doubles as a shopping cart. Or perhaps we
> could
> interest you in some Pakistani truck art with a side of DIY panniers
> for
> motorbikes.
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