On Friday March 6th at 12pm Pacific, Dale Dougherty and I will be hosting the first episode of our new live call-in show, Make: Talk. Our guest are Gareth Branwyn, who edited the “Lost Knowledge” section of MAKE Vol. 17, and Jake von Slatt, who designed and built the Wimshurst Spark Generator shown on the cover.
To listen to the show, you can click the player above tomorrow at noon, or visit the show page at BlogTalkRadio. We welcome your calls at (646) 915-8698.
You can also subscribe to the podcast of the show here.
MAKE Volume 17 goes really old school with the Lost Knowledge issue, featuring projects and articles covering the steampunk scene, makers creating their own alternative Victorian world through modified computers, phones, cars, costumes, and other fantastic creations. Projects include an elegant Wimshurst Influence Machine, an electrostatic generator built entirely from Home Depot parts, a “Florentine Flask” siphon coffee brewer, and a tea cup-powered Stirling Engine. The section will also cover watchmaking, letterpress, the early multimedia art of William Blake, and other wondrous and lost (or fading) pre-20th century technologies. Our guest is Gareth Branwyn, who edited this volume’s special section. We’ll also talk with Jake von Slatt, creator of the Victorian-era Wimshurst Spark Generator that appears on the cover of our current issue.