Made on Earth
Bekonscot, the world’s oldest model village.
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Before the Disney/Pixar film WALL-E premiered in 2008, replicas of its robot star were already showing up on the internet.
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A new breed of bionic air and ground forces, a cyborg army designed and built by artist Dean Christ.
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The Detroit Tree of Heaven Woodshop is a collective of artists, arborists, and woodworkers that transforms the ghetto palm into lumber.
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The Rubber Bandit, a rubber band gun created by 21-year-old Andy Mangold.
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Sanjeev Shankar and the residents of Rajokri, India transformed old oilcans into a suspended shade pavilion called Jugaad.
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David Butcher's Pedal Powered Prime Mover as seen on Make: television.
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1+2+3
» Remote-Controlled Camera Mount
by Ben Wendt
A street-level action cam that captures video on the move!
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Maker
MythBuster Adam Savage talks about making his way growing up.
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How the creator of the Superplexus turned a childhood idea into a lifelong passion.
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For 40 years, Michael Chesko has been mapping the country
of his dreams.
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Japanese blacksmith Kogoro Kurata forges ahead.
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Welcome
How I became a maker.
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Reader Input
» Reader Input
Young makers, DTV praises, a melted museum, and a CRAFTer's lament.
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Tom Zimmerman has volunteered in San Jose, Calif., schools, engaging students in hands-on activities and teaching science and technology.
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Make Free
» Shortcut to Omniscience
by Cory Doctorow
Wikipedia's secret weapon and its greatest weakness.
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Making Trouble
If you suffer from inventor-itis, as I do, the first thing you notice about the baby world is that everything is broken.
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Tales from the Web
A few of our favorite online offerings from recent months.
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Country Scientist
When the subject is two-dimensional, flatbed digital scanners can play a major role in imaging science.
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Revisiting Mister Jalopy’s Owner’s Manifesto on MAKE’s 5th anniversary.
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Maker's Corner
Take a school or teacher under your wing this holiday.
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A look back at 1960s maker toys.
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Authentically rigged model boat sails across pools and ponds.
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Crowd-pleasers from the MAKE vault.
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Make the cub scout rocket derby a blast.
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Make a keyless, secret, wooden compartment.
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Build rafts and towers without nails.
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» The Weight-Powered Vehicle (WPV)
by Richard B. Graeber
How far can a car go on one foot-pound of energy?
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We asked teachers to share their favorite classroom & science fair projects.
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Make a mechanical, gravity-powered, Binary calculator that uses wooden levers
and channels to count.
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Actor John Ratzenberger wants to see every kid become a hands-on maker.
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Use electricity to split tap water into hydrogen and oxygen gases, then use this explosive gas mixture to power a two-stage, electronically timed rocket.
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Motorize a 19th-century parlor novelty, and keep its frames synched to an LED strobe by using a sensor and an Arduino microcontroller.
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Build three different laser effects machines that fit into metal lunchboxes to create exciting sound and light shows.
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DIY: Imaging
Microscope and telescope photography made easy and cheap.
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Near-infrared photography captures bats and other night movers.
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DIY: Science
Make your own van Leeuwenhoek microscope.
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DIY: Outdoors
Seeking untouched powder? Mod a snowboard into a splitboard.
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DIY: Toys
Build a mini toy car launcher out of scraps.
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DIY: Workshop
» Saving Your Specs
by Dmitri Monk
Repair plastic eyeglass frames with thread and super glue.
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DIY: Home
Find buried cable breaks with a radio.
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» The Civilized Cat
by Josh Klein
Train your feline companion to use the toilet.
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Turn good vintage speakers into great modern ones.
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DIY: Telephony
Adding Bluetooth to an old phone.
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MakeShift
» MakeShift: Property Condemned
by Lee D. Zlotoff
An urban spelunking misadventure.
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Toolbox
Motion-memory toys, best holiday kits for kids and grownups, cool new tools, books, sites, and the ultimate Dremel.
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Howtoons
Harness the power of the wind.
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» Humphry Davy and the Arc Light
by William Gurstelle
More than 70 years before Edison’s 1879 incandescent lamp patent, the English scientist Humphry Davy developed a technique for producing controlled light from electricity.
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Aha!
Tanks a lot.
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Make Money
» 50¢ Bottle Openers
by Tom Parker
Sometimes it costs more to buy it than to make it from the money itself.
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Maker's Calendar
Our favorite events from around the world.
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Homebrew
The coolest playground on the block is of course handmade.
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