Make:

About MAKE

MAKE Magazine brings the do-it-yourself mindset to all the technology in your life. MAKE is loaded with exciting projects that help you make the most of your technology at home and away from home. We celebrate your right to tweak, hack, and bend any technology to your own will.

Published as a quarterly since February 2005, MAKE is a hybrid magazine/book (known as a mook in Japan). MAKE comes from O'Reilly, the Publisher of Record for geeks and tech enthusiasts everywhere. It follows in line with the Hacks books and Hardware Hacking Projects for Geeks, but it takes a highly visual and personal approach.

Our premiere issue showed you how to get involved in kite aerial photography — taking pictures with a camera suspended from a kite — and how to build an inexpensive rig to hold your camera.

We've also shown you how to make a video camera stabilizer, a do-it-yourself alternative to an expensive Steadicam® and how to create a five-in-one cable adapter for connecting to networks. Some projects are strictly for fun, others are very practical, and still others are absolutely astounding.

About O'Reilly Media, Inc.

O'Reilly Media is the premier information resource for technology innovation. Since 1978, business leaders and geeks alike have relied on the company's books, conferences, and web sites to illuminate new computer technologies around the globe. The O'Reilly Radar has consistently proven reliable in predicting successful industry growth areas, leading to the widespread adoption of many emerging technologies. O'Reilly has been instrumental in putting the coolness in Geek.

The MAKE Team

Dale Dougherty is the editor and publisher of MAKE. Dale has been instrumental in many of O'Reilly's most important efforts, including founding O'Reilly & Associates with Tim O'Reilly. He was the developer and publisher of Global Network Navigator (GNN), the first commercial website. Dale was developer and publisher of Web Review, the online magazine for Web designers, and was O'Reilly's first editor. Dale has written and edited numerous books at O'Reilly and started the popular Hacks book series.

Mark Frauenfelder is a writer and illustrator living in Los Angeles, and the editor-in-chief of MAKE. He is the cofounder of the popular Boing Boing weblog and was an editor at Wired from 1993-1998, and was the founding editor-in-chief of Wired Online.

Shawn Connally is the managing editor of MAKE. Her knack for finding typos has been serving her well for almost 20 years. She has written for the Marin Independent Journal, Web Techniques magazine, The Industry Standard, Quokka Sports, AmericasCup.com, NBCOlympics.com, and ZDNet, as well as editing for several publications. She was a writer and editor for Web Review, the online magazine for web designers, and began her working relationship with O’Reilly as an editor and writer for Global Network Navigator (GNN), the first commercial web site.

Phillip Torrone is an author, artist, and engineer and is senior editor of MAKE. Phillip has authored and contributed to numerous books on programming, mobile devices, design, multimedia, hardware hacking and is a contributing editor for Popular Science. Phillip also co-produces the MAKE audio and video content on the Makezine.com site. In his spare time he helps design open source electronics. Prior to MAKE, Phillip was director of Product Development for creative firm Fallon Worldwide, best known for their award-winning films. Phillip can be reached via email, Instant Message (AIM), Skype, Flickr, or +17078277311. .