MAKE Asks: is a weekly column where we ask you, our readers, for responses to maker-related questions. We hope the column sparks interesting conversation and is a way for us to get to know more about each other.
This week’s question: It might have been a casual introduction for some, but I have a feeling some of you may distinctly remember when and how you first heard about MAKE. Please tell your story.
When I was starting on my first electronics project, I brought a guitar pedal idea to some geeky friends of mine. After some discussion and hasty sketching in a notebook, one of them slapped an issue of Make Magazine on the table and said, “Colombo, you need to start reading this.” In a way, that’s when it all changed.
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I think I found MAKE a few years ago through Lifehacker. I’m not sure what article inspired me, but I do remember (and still have) the inspiration I got from here when looking to get into learning the Arduino platform. Since then, I’ve subscribed to the blog, purchased a few print editions and ebooks and have collected a few project ideas that I would love to try soon. Generally, this has been a wonderful resource to allow me to continue learning and making.
I was sitting in a doctor’s office, and I saw a review of Vol 1. My first home delivery was Vol 2. :)
That’s awesome! I wouldn’t expect an issue to be in a Doc’s office.
July 3, 2011, when I was looking for a good book about electronics (Make: Electronics -Learning by Discovery). Awesome book !
Since then, I started to check this blog/site every single day.
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I found Make with the first issue in a Barnes and Noble. I immediately signed up for a subscription because I liked it so much. Shortly after that, Hurricane Katrina destroyed my house and we lost everything. I called around to change mailing addresses for everything, and a few days after I called Make, an envelope arrived with copies of all of the magazines I had lost. It was a completely unnecessary action, but it was so appreciated for the moment of brightness in a dark time that it is the one subscription I won’t even consider dropping. I even signed up for Craft for my wife. Great magazine. Great customer service.
I had read on Slashdot (I think some time in 2005) about the upcoming magazine from O’riley, and quickly put in for a pre-order.
I found Make volume 2 with C3PO and R2D2 on the magazine rack in a store. Been hooked ever sense.
I somehow got a sign up card in the mail. After spending five hours reading over the website I bought a subscription, number 17 was the first issue to come to the house.
I bought the first issue, but honestly wasn’t impressed. (I think I had read a pre-announcement on Slashdot.) I looked again at issue 4 and then said “Wow, I need to subscribe!” I then (re)bought 1-3 to have the whole set. (I had lost issue 1 in the meantime)
I started with the 8th issue, about refurbishing the COMET pinball machine, and since I love pinball, I gathered my “junk”, and drew a sketch of what I wanted. I wanted it as simple as possible, using only gravity to play it. it doesn’t have a scoreboard.
I completed it, checked online, and it is similar to Williams 1965 Big Chief, but is not a copy of it.
I read about Make in QST, official journal of ARRL the national association for amateur radio.
Found it 2009 somewhere online.
Something about your RSS feed: Why does this post have a “proper” blurb in the feed, whereas most other content just has 2 lines of bland text? I’m not really reading anything on your blog anymore, because I can’t figure out if it is interesting in my feedreader.
I believe I saw it in a Barnes and Noble and seeing the kite photography (something I had done some 20 years years) on the cover of Volume 1, immediately fell in love with it. I have been a subscriber since volume 1. I have also managed to buy volume 1 in Japanese.