Made on Earth
Erik Westerberg's homemade submarine can dive to a depth of 100 meters.
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If the headlamp on a classic Vespa can illuminate a twisting Italian roadway at night, why couldn't it light up a desk?
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Jonathan Jamieson turned common barbecue skewers into a delicate sculpture of chutes and turns for a rolling metal ball.
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The Topsy-Turvy School Bus is touring the United States with a different point of view about the presidential election.
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Gina Kamentsky's Mechanical Confections are one-of-a-kind kinetic sculptures.
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Teenager Max Maruszewski built a PlayStation console case out of Legos.
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A bottle chapel built by restaurant owner and folk artist Martin Sanchez.
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1+2+3
Copper-coat a tin can, turning it into an aesthetically pleasing, reusable container.
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Devise sneaky uses for high-tech candy packaging and other small toys.
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Maker
Jack Parsons, the space pioneer history likes to forget.
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Projects
Build a PVC air cannon that delivers maximum bang for the buck.
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Build a simple sequencer that lets babies play with shapes, sounds, and lights, or teaches older kids the basics of electronic music. You'll have lots of fun with it yourself!
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Welcome
A proposal to use "slow made" to identify the work of makers.
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Maker's Calendar
Our favorite events from around the world.
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Make Free
» Predicting the Present
by Cory Doctorow
Science fiction writers may not accurately predict the future, but they're often excellent predictors of the present.
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Maker's Corner
Interested in getting your kit in front of millions of makers and DIY enthusiasts?
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Make Money
» 3 1/4-Cent Lure
by Tom Parker
Sometimes it costs more to buy it than to make it from the money itself, like this $1.04 fishing lure.
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Hands On
Personal fabbing via the web: it's a long-tail, pro-am, digital maker thing.
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Art Work
Using algorithms to create art might produce unexpected and marvelous results.
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Proto
The magician's magician, illusion designer John Gaughan is the man behind the curtain.
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Making Trouble
» The Fairyland of Science
by Saul Griffith
Magic is in the mind of a fifth-grader near you.
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» The Barrage Garage: Meet the Tool-Zine
by William Gurstelle
Outfitting the all-purpose maker's worshop. Part 2 of the Barrage Garage series.
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The 2007 Robodock festival in Amsterdam.
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» Talk to the Hand
What's it like to participate in Robodock? Does a giant, car-crushing hand sound like fun?
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Meet the Junk Brothers: they filch people's curbside castoffs, transform them, and give them back.
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A maker's history of black powder.
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Revive five captivating magic classics.
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Remake this classic magic trick with high-quality materials.
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Do you protect a magic trick, or keep it a secret? You can't have both -- patent filings expose the mechanics behind the tricks.
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Only you can stop the head from sliding down the string!
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» The Power of Negative Thinking
by Charles Platt
While they're watching the money, you'll know the trick is in the bag.
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How to catch a spirit with a trick scarf.
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An ordinary-looking Sharpie dances at your command.
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» Diminutive Balls of Fire
by Joel Johnson
Construct a concealable, hand-held fireball shooter.
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MAKE takes apart an old carnival game to reveal its fraudulent gimmick.
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Heirloom Technology
» All-Purpose Swahili Bed
by Tim Anderson
In Kenya, the most common and most useful piece of furniture is the rot- and bedbug-resistant Swahili bed.
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Upload
Tips and tools for digital diversions.
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Create dramatic back-lighting effects with image editing software.
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Back up multiple movies on a single disc.
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Set up a cheap wireless server for your song collection.
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Enhance your music for playing in the car.
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Build and demonstrate an active vibration-damping system in the form of a desktop "skyscraper" that uses integrated sensors, actuators, and electronics to cancel out vibrations.
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Aha!
MAKE's favorite puzzles; including dates, palindromes, orbs, and poison pills!
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DIY: Toys
A Cub Scout shows how to build marionettes from old Zip drives.
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A wooden game uses a familiar cafeteria food-fight launcher.
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DIY: Imaging
Rig an onboard camera like the cops and NASCAR, for 15 bucks.
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DIY: Workshop
» Lost Screw Finder
by Frank Ford
An easy vacuum cleaner attachment to help you find small parts -- including plastic ones that a magnet would miss.
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DIY: Home
Get a lush garden from your laundry water.
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» Grow Giant Vegetables
by Carl Malamud
Extreme sports meet 4H when you grow giant pumpkins.
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Keep your own flock of hens in your backyard for delicious fresh eggs!
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DIY: Science
DIY internal combustion using Home Depot parts.
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DIY: Circuits
Elegant timepiece marks the hours with needle meters.
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Hide a gadget in a ball cap to turn off TVs by just looking at them.
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Get vintage sounds from time-warp radio.
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Toys, Tricks, and Teasers
Martin Gardner's mathemagic.
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Howtoons
Celine and Tucker perform with a magical mobius strip.
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Retrospect
» Project Orion: Deep Space Force
by George Dyson
For the atomic rocket engineers, the moon was in; Saturn and Mars were out.
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Reader Input
» Reader Input
Where makers tell their tales and offer praise, brickbats, and swell ideas.
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MakeShift
» MakeShift: Broken Arm in the Wilderness
by Lee D. Zlotoff
The creator of MacGyver challenges you to get your friend to medical help from an isolated fishing stream in a car with only three tires.
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Blast from the Past
If Snap-On doesn't want to sell to amateurs, somebody else will. Introducing Deen Tools: Japanese quality made in Taiwan.
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Toolbox
» Toolbox
All the awl you'll need, a kit to build your own yo-yo, wireless SD memory cards, and the maker before MacGyver.
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Homebrew
Harry Porter had dreamed of making a relay computer since he was a boy.
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