MAKE, Volume 17 is here (m4v video)! Get your spark on with Steampunk genius and cover star Jake von Slatt’s Wimshurst Influence Machine. Learn to build your own categorized cabinet of wonders to display your collectible oddities. Read all about William Blake, a poet who was actually a maker! Go inside a California steam-powered sawmill. Brew the smoothest cup of coffee with John Park’s siphon brewing apparatus. recreate a 1930s model airplane and give it an RC twist for the best toy flier in the sky. Build your own ball-bearing controlled tangible sequencer, plus lots more projects!

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