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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 shown you how to make a wide variety of projects, including: a Twittering cat toy, a video camera stabilizer (a do-it-yourself alternative to an expensive Steadicam®), a cigar box guitar, a hydrogen-oxygen bottle rocket, and 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. In addition, we keep you informed about groundbreaking new DIY technologies, like Arduino microcontrollers and 3D printing.

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 founder and general manager of Maker Media. 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.

Shawn Connally is the director of digital media for Maker Media. Her passions for technology and journalism have been serving her well for more than 20 years. She was previously the founding managing editor of both MAKE and CRAFT magazines. She has written for many publications, including the Marin Independent Journal, Web Techniques magazine, The Industry Standard, and Quokka Sports, and held leadership production roles at AmericasCup.com, NBCOlympics.com, and ZDNet. She was a writer and editor for Web Review, the online magazine for web designers, has edited books (GIF Animation Studio, Makers:), and began her working relationship with O’Reilly as an editor and writer for Global Network Navigator (GNN), the first commercial website.

Mark Frauenfelder is the editor-in-chief of MAKE magazine, and the founder of the popular Boing Boing blog. He was an editor at Wired from 1993-1998, and was the founding editor-in-chief of Wired Online. He's the author of six books. His latest book is Made By Hand: Searching for Meaning in a Throwaway World.

Keith Hammond is the managing editor of MAKE magazine. He cut his teeth at The Nose magazine and was news editor of Mother Jones Online, the first general-interest magazine to publish on the web. He has written and edited for publishers ranging from Forbes to EcoTraveler to Random House; worked as a lobbyist and communications director for wilderness conservation groups; and consulted on political and media campaigns for nonprofit, corporate, and government clients. He returned to publishing in 2006 with O'Reilly Media, as production editor of the book Makers: and copy chief of MAKE and CRAFT.

Gareth Branwyn is the editor-in-chief of Make: Online. For 12 years, he was a contributing editor at Wired, co-creating and authoring the "Jargon Watch" column and writing numerous feature pieces. Gareth has also authored half a dozen books, including the first book dedicated to the Web (Mosaic Quick Tour: Accessing and Navigating the World Wide Web), The Happy Mutant Handbook (with the editors of bOING bOING magazine), and Jamming the Media: A Citizen's Guide. He has served as an editor for a number of MAKE's popular book titles, including Make: Electronics, Maker's Notebook, and The Best of MAKE.

Phillip Torrone is the editor at large of Make: Online. He has authored and contributed to numerous books on programming, mobile devices, design, hardware hacking and is also a contributing editor for Popular Science. In addition to MAKE, Phillip is creative director at Adafruit Industries, a New York City based open source hardware and electronic kit company. Prior to MAKE, Phillip was director of product development for creative firm Fallon Worldwide, best known for their award-winning films. He was the first and most prolific editor/blogger of Make: Online.