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Artist David King's four-month residency at the San Francisco city dump. Page 18
Marcin Jakubowski and the team at Open Source Ecology (OSE) designed an open source tractor, called LifeTrac. Page 20
New Zealand artist Christian Nicolson's full-sized fighter plane based on the old balsa models. Page 21
Paul Villinski's Emergency Response Studio, a FEMA-style trailer transformed into a fully functional, sustainably built mobile artist studio. Page 22
Artist Alison Elizabeth Taylor's familiar scenes rendered in unexpected ways using wood inlay. Page 23
Artist Sophia Allison's imaginatively feminine wrestling attire. Page 24
Reno Tondelli, Jr. built the world's first recumbent hybrid taxi. Page 25
Double up to get those big digging projects done without a single backache or blister. Page 141
Helen and Scott Nearing left New York City in 1932 to create a "self-sufficient household economy" on a 65-acre farm in a Vermont village. Page 30
Could a tanker full of iron dust solve climate change? The eccentric, seafaring saga of Russ George. Page 32
We see solutions to big problems coming from innovative makers working in their basements, garages, and workshops. Page 36
Dustin Zuckerman is putting his tools into circulation. Page 38
Makers are the best hope for the future. Page 1
Tales of Senft Stirling engines, Einstein’s Riddle, and the joys of generalism. Page 12
A new market for makers to sell their products. Page 15
There's never a good reason for the government to keep its everyday workings a secret from the people who own it: the citizenry. Page 17
5,000 days? CO2 targets and how much fossil fuel we can burn. Page 26
Making and using the futurescape. Page 28
Make things with a mill that you make. Page 40
Easily analyze scientific images. Page 42
ReMaking America begins at home. Tame your energy bills, reduce your inputs, and turn your lawn into food. Page 46
New ways to see your power usage in real time. Page 48
Reduce your electricity bill with the engineer's favorite problem-solving method. Page 52
Fresh air without the energy loss. Page 56
This think-small washer needs no electricity or running water. Page 60
Food + biofuels: an 18-month experiment in self-sufficiency. Page 68
Take food independence to the max. Page 71
Grow healthy vegetables the automatic way, while using less water. Page 72
Let hungry, squirmy wigglers take out the household trash. Page 78
Embrace your body as a soil-maker. Page 82
How one couple proved the skeptics wrong. Page 84
DIY energy, vehicle, home, and garden projects from previous volumes of MAKE. Page 87
Geeked-out gardening: use a microcontroller and simple sensors to give plants exactly the water and light they need. Page 90
The Little Glowing Friend uses a single-chip microcontroller to drive 20 LEDs in a variety of patterns. Page 102
Build a wireless electricity monitor for about $50, and twitter your kilowatts. Page 112
Mod an electric jack to do your bidding. Page 123
Make your own nails and other small iron parts. Page 127
Make wine into water (sort of). Page 130
Save your tap water and let the rain in. Page 133
A free and easy thermal assist from the sun. Page 135
A cycle support from the plumbing aisle. Page 137
How to make bacon soap, from actual bacon! Page 139
Mapping your lot is the first step in designing a homestead. Page 142
Experimental biogas. Page 150
The creator of MacGyver challenges you: find your way out of a pitch-black bat cave using only your wits and what's on your back. Page 152
A family of inventive blacksmiths in Indonesia supply the locals with just about everything they need. Page 154
Wireless signal detector for the paranoid, a fire-powered soak, iPhone hacks, and tales of sustainability. Page 156
An illusion that never ceases to fascinate is the mirror-produced "real image" -- you'll reach out to grasp it, but your fingers close only on thin air. Page 164
Our favorite events from around the world. Page 168
Figure out what these abbreviated phrases mean. Page 169
Sometimes it costs more to buy it than to make it from the money itself. Page 175
The Bloog is a synthesizer that uses not oscillators, but RSS feeds, one that manipulates not sounds, but words. Page 176
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