Columns
» Our New Tool for Community Collaboration
by Mark Frauenfelder
in Welcome
Make: Projects (makeprojects.com) is our brand new beta library of project instructions written by you, the readers.
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» Reader Input
Rosy CupCakes, router safety, shocked kids, and pirate booms.
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» Smiley Face Technologies
by Saul Griffith
in Making Trouble
I have an antidote that keeps me upbeat, something special and beautiful that keeps me optimistic about the human condition ... people share their ideas with me.
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» Walled Gardens vs. Makers
by Cory Doctorow
in Make Free
Making is about sharing. The reason we can make so much today is because the basic knowledge, skills, and tools to make anything are already on the ground, a loam in which our inspiration can germinate.
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» The Infrared Thermometer: An Essential Science Gadget
by Forrest Mims III
in Country Scientist
While I've spent 20 years measuring sunlight, haze, the ozone layer, and the water vapor layer using various homemade insruments, a couple of IR thermometers are among the most important gadgets in my science toolbox.
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» Summer's Here
by Dan Woods
in Maker's Corner
Time to get serious about that long-overdue MAKEcation.
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Made on Earth
Daniel Deutsch built his own full-sized, drivable landspeeder.
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Firefly 1440 is an LED display of dancing light patterns based on the wind's force, timing, and direction.
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Sculptor Christopher Fennell created a bus stop shelter out of actual retired buses.
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Rufus Butler Seder creates animated glass murals.
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Theresa Honeywell covered an entire motorcycle in knitwork.
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Dale Sander built a "truss telescoping telescope."
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Waste to Work is a project that explores sweat as a catalyst for energy.
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1+2+3
Here's how you can make your own collapsible fruit picker in about 5 minutes.
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Using simple trigonometric principles, you can closely estimate the height of objects with an easy-to-make-hypsometer (hyps means height in Greek).
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Maker
Young makers are seizing breakout opportunities on the wild frontier of Detroit.
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The workshop where Henry Ford made his first car.
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The art and community of the DIY iron pour.
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A popular hacker energy drink gets homebrewed.
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» Stone Age Telegraph
by Jamie O'Shea
Armed only with information, I turn rocks and sticks into an electronic signal.
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» Maker Faire 2010: Going East
Born in 2005 as a maker meetup, Maker Faire (makerfaire.com) is the world's largest DIY festival, celebrating homegrown technology from robots and rockets to food, arts, and crafts.
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SPECIAL SECTION: Gadgets
How to make a Mosquito Defense Shield.
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Make a know-it-all animated reflection that talks back.
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» Mystery Electronic Switches
by J. Tregre
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Three handy gizmos that snap, magnify, and play.
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Pressurize with a plunger that pushes but doesn't pull.
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Projects
Squelette is a see-through amplifier that sounds ridiculously good while showing off your soldering (it looks nothing like a typical audio product).
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Outfit a toy gyroscope with an electric motor to make it run continuously, and add an adjustable drive wheel that lets it chug along a monorail, balance on a string, circle the rim of a pot, and perform other tricks.
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Make a machine that, when you flip the switch on, an arm reaches out of a door to turn the switch back off.
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Skill Builder
Programmable logic controllers never fail.
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DIY: Workshop
Build your own inexpensive yet sturdy worktables and shelving.
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» CD/DVD Parts Container
by Steve Stofiel
A new twist on the old baby-food jar organizer.
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DIY: Home
Lay your own earthen brick floor for about $60.
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DIY: Science
Convert an old-school microfiche reader into a magnifying machine.
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DIY: Imaging
Make mini movies from a command line.
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DIY: Music
Self-sufficient station-wagon sonic splendor.
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Make audio circuits sing higher and lower.
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DIY: Outdoors
» Lily Pad Pool Warmers
by Edward Hujsak
Use hula hoops to heat your swimming pool using the sun.
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Make a lockable carry-all box from sheet metal.
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MakeShift
The creator of MacGyver challenges you to get an unconscious person out of a crashed car.
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Electronics: Fun and Fundamentals
The first of a series of columns for readers who have relatively little knowledge of electronics and would like to know more.
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Toy Inventor's Notebook
Use a piece of vintage speaker cloth to make a mini "guitar amp" bulletin board.
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Howtoons
» Howtoons: Musée du Dodecahedron
by Saul Griffith
Depicting a subject from multiple viewpoints gives it greater context.
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Workshop
Milwaukee's Firefly Workshop
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Toys, Tricks, and Teasers
MAKE readers hope that the things they make will work as intended. That doesn't always happen. Meet the fool's tackle.
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Aha!
Gadget Brothers Reunion
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Heirloom Technology
Transplant a big tree with a giant two-wheeled dolly.
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Dangerous Things
Take command of 5,000 pounds of metal.
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Remaking History
» Samuel Morse and the Telegraph
by William Gurstelle
Despite the fact that Morse had little knowledge of electricity, he plunged ahead as only a man in the throes of a serious midlife crisis could.
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Make Money
Sometimes it costs more to buy it than to make it from the money itself.
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Homebrew
» My Embedded Entertainment System
by Luis Cruz
In October 2009, just one year after I started studying electronics, I decided to build my own video game system, applying everything I'd learned about microcontrollers and game programming to a single system.
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