Dale Dougherty
Dale Dougherty is the editor and publisher of MAKE, and general manager of the Maker Media division of O'Reilly Media, Inc. Dale has been instrumental in many of O'Reilly's most important efforts, including founding O'Reilly Media, Inc. with Tim O'Reilly. He was the developer and publisher of Global Network Navigator (GNN), the first commercial Web site which launched in 1993 and was sold to AOL in 1995. Dale was developer and publisher of Web Review, the online magazine for Web designers, and he was O'Reilly's first editor. Prior to developing MAKE, Dale was publisher of the O'Reilly Network and he developed the Hacks series of books. Dale is the author of "Sed & Awk." Dougherty was a Lecturer in the School of Information Management and Systems (SIMS) at the University of California at Berkeley from 1996 to 2000. Learn more about Dale on his personal site, dalepd.com and follow him on twitter at @dalepd.
Recent Blog Posts
Astronaut’s Caravan at Maker Faire UK
The amazing Tim Hunkin has done it again. In collaboration with Andy Plant, Tim has created the Astronaut's Caravan. It's a trailer that turns 360 degrees. Tim had the humorous idea of creating a place where former astronauts might go on holiday to recreate a bit of the experience of being in space. Andy realized that they could make it work inside a trailer, also called a caravan.
Robot Sticks To Its Knitting at Maker Faire UK
One of my favorite maker exhibits at Maker Faire UK in Newcastle this weekend is by Andy Noyes, a first-time participant in Maker Faire. His knitting animatronic robot, AGNES, doesn’t just go through the motions of knitting. She actually produces a knitted scarf using a circular loom. Andy said he’s […]
MAKE Welcomes Ken Denmead as Editorial Director
I'd like to welcome Ken Denmead to Maker Media. He'll start May 13 as editorial director. He replaces outgoing editorial director Gareth Branwyn. Ken has been editor and publisher of Geekdad and publisher of Geekmom, which recently struck out on its own. Ken is a civil engineer who will be quitting his day job to join us at MAKE. We're excited to have his energy and experience to help us shape our online community.
Earth Day Thought from Jared Diamond
The problems that we face are not beyond our control because we are the ones creating the problems. We can do something about them. I’ve paraphrased a quote from Jared Diamond who spoke at an Earth Day celebration at Iron Horse Vineyards in Sonoma County. Diamond is the well-known author […]
Super Awesome Sylvia Goes to White House Science Fair
Congratulations to Super Awesome Sylvia, who will represent Maker Faire at the White House Science Fair, which will be held Monday April 22, 2013 at 11:30 am EDT. Sylvia Todd will bring her watercolor drawbot to the White House along with her infectious energy and enthusiasm. From wh.gov: Watch […]
Makers and Marathoners
Today is the 117th running of the Boston Marathon on Patriot's Day. More than 27,000 people entered the race. The Boston Marathon is the nation's first and most prestigious marathon, but now there are over 3,000 such marathons world wide. There are more people running marathons today than ever before. I've been studying the marathon, exploring possible parallels to the growing maker movement. While not everybody will be a marathoner or a maker, more and more people are choosing to do something…
How Many People Will Own 3D Printers?
MAKE publisher Dale Dougherty looks at the current state of the 3D printing industry and asks: "How soon do you think we'll get to one million printers and what will drive those sales?"
Georgia Tech’s Makerspace is a Model for Higher Education
Georgia Tech's Invention Studio makerspace and maker club just might democratize the practice of engineering.
Making Jobs
Does innovation create jobs or just eliminate them? That was the question put forward at the International Summit on Innovation for Jobs (I4J), held last week at SRI in Menlo Park, CA.
Eben Upton Brings “Pi” to PyCon
Raspberry Pi's Eben Upton was in the Bay Area to keynote PyCon 2013 on March 15th in Santa Clara. The Python language was part of the plan for Raspberry Pi from the beginning and Upton joked that he had misspelled "Py" in naming "Raspberry Pi." Upton's talk serves as a good overview of Raspberry Pi and its development goals.
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Good Design Gets Out of the Way
Arduino's Massimo Banzi on interaction design.
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Features
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32: Design for Makers page 56
A Summer of Making
For all kids, time spent outside of school is as important, if not more so, than time inside school.
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Welcome
from MAKE:
schoolsout: School's Out page 6
Experiment on Yourself
History is full of quirky tales of scientists who were first in line to try their own experiments.
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Welcome
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29: DIY Superhuman page 11
Toy Stories
This Toys and Games issue of MAKE is filled with fun projects to make that just might inspire you to see the world differently — as something you can shape, mold, shrink, and hack.
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Welcome
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28: Toys and Games page 11
Building Robots that Play
Like dogs, robots are becoming our companions, demonstrating the ability to learn new routines that make us happy.
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Welcome
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27: Robots page 11
The Little Engine That Could
An Arduino board is cheap enough that you wouldn't feel bad breaking it, burning it up, or leaving it behind in a project.
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Welcome
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25: Microcontrollers and Arduino page 10
Open Sourcing Space
The U.S. space program that I grew up with is gone. Yet our fascination with space is not.
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Welcome
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24: Space page 1
Kid Robot
Young makers are seizing breakout opportunities on the wild frontier of Detroit.
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Maker
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23: Gadgets page 30
Much More to Do
Five years in, MAKE is just getting started.
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Welcome
from MAKE:
21: Desktop Manufacturing page 1
Learn by Making
Tom Zimmerman has volunteered in San Jose, Calif., schools, engaging students in hands-on activities and teaching science and technology.
From MAKE:
20: For Kids of All Ages page 13
Getting Back to Nuts and Bolts
Actor John Ratzenberger wants to see every kid become a hands-on maker.
From MAKE:
20: For Kids of All Ages page 86
Welcome: ReMake America
Makers are the best hope for the future.
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Welcome
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18: ReMake America page 1
What’s in Your Garage?
We see solutions to big problems coming from innovative makers working in their basements, garages, and workshops.
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Maker
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18: ReMake America page 36
Tool Library
Dustin Zuckerman is putting his tools into circulation.
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Maker
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18: ReMake America page 38
Toolbox
Wireless signal detector for the paranoid, a fire-powered soak, iPhone hacks, and tales of sustainability.
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Toolbox
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18: ReMake America page 156
The Power of Steam
A steam-powered sawmill survives.
From MAKE:
17: Lost Knowledge page 52
Changes
The $4,000 handmade rattle.
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Changes
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CRAFT:
10: Celebrate! page 13
The Visible Hand
The DIY mindset must again become an essential life skill.
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Welcome
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16: Spy Tech page 13
The First Picture Show
Jack Judson reveals the beginnings of the entertainment industry at his Magic Lantern Castle Museum.
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Maker
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16: Spy Tech page 28
24 Hours of Make: Television
Building a TV show is a project in itself.
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Maker
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16: Spy Tech page 34
Sharing the Adventure
Make's publisher Dale Dougherty talks about the beauty of sharing between makers.
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Welcome
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15: Music page 12
Dirty Car Art
Scott Wade wanted to do better than write "Wash Me" in the dust of dirty cars... so he drew caricatures.
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Made on Earth
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14: Optics page 23
The Cathedral and Bazaar Bizarre
Bazaar Bizarre is helping to introduce open source crafting, where shared ideas help to expand our skills and improve craft quality for all.
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Welcome to Craft
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CRAFT:
07: Shoes page 10
Slow Made: Take It Easy
A proposal to use "slow made" to identify the work of makers.
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Welcome
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13: Magic page 10
Post-Industrial Idyll
The 2007 Robodock festival in Amsterdam.
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13: Magic page 46
What Are You Doing for Halloween?
Welcome: Why we're fiends for the holiday made for makers.
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halloween2007: Halloween page 8
Howling Yeti
How we combined live theater and special effects to create a fun-filled community haunted house.
From MAKE:
halloween2007: Halloween page 10
Propeller Chip
BASIC Stamp's Chip Gracey puts a new spin on microcontrollers.
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10: Home Electronics page 76
Toolbox
Get started in electronics, eliminate red eye the old-school way, and touch up your walls with the screw of a lid.
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Toolbox
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10: Home Electronics page 168
Toolbox
Read about crop circles, make your own temporary tattoos, and take crystal-clear photos with a circular polarizing filter.
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Toolbox
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09: Fringe page 172
Follow the Bouncing Ball
Download Sample PDF
Pinball's magic juju and the unanticipated effect of one thing on another.
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Welcome
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08: Toys and Games page 11
Heavy Lifting
Placing huge towers up a mountain is just the start to reaching Troy Caldwell's ski-resort-on-a-budget dream.
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08: Toys and Games page 38
Pinball
Pinball, Resurrected by Bill Bumgarner (pg. 66)
Restoring a crusty, beat-up Cyclone.
Pinheads in Oddball Places by Dale Dougherty (pg. 74)
Inside the electromechanical underground, with Lucky Ju Ju and the Pinball Hall of Fame.
From MAKE: 08: Toys and Games page 66
Toolbox
Create your own computer games, discover magnetic attractions, and become a paper airplane champion. Plus: Recommendations from kids, and from and the designers at Wild Planet.
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Toolbox
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08: Toys and Games page 168
Genuine Ingenuity
True stories and authentic experiences at the first annual Maker Faire.
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07: Backyard Biology page 48
Tones Dem Tones, Damn Ringtones
Shouldn't people make their own ringtones, not buy them?
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Welcome
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06: Robots page 11
On to Year Two
A look back on our exciting first year.
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Welcome
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05: Science, Weather, and Outdoors page 11
Toolbox
The best tools, software, gadgets, books, magazines, and websites.
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Toolbox
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05: Science, Weather, and Outdoors page 172
Kits For The Holidays
Our guide to the coolest kits to make and give.
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04: Music and Kits for the Holidays page 64
Tea Leaves: Wabi-Sabi
The Japanese have a deeper appreciation for things humble and handmade.
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04: Music and Kits for the Holidays page 184
Treasure Trove
Lindsay Publications' unique catalog of hard-to-find lore.
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Blast from the Past
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04: Music and Kits for the Holidays page 186
Maker Friendly
Dale Dougherty wonders what would it mean for products to be more maker friendly, not just user friendly.
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03: Cars and Halloween page 7
Ooz and Oz
Hacking robot toys is all in a day's work for Natalie Jeremijenko. Dale Dougherty trails the UCSD professor for a day of fun at the races, transforming toy robotic dogs into environmental avengers.
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Maker
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02: Home Entertainment page 22
Google DIY Patterns
A DIY project is a design challenge that can best be described as a set of patterns, just as Google remade the web with a new kind of language for getting what we want from a web browser.
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02: Home Entertainment page 39
Welcome
The making of Make: Publisher and Editor Dale Dougherty presents the philosophy of MAKE in a nutshell: We're all Makers now.
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Welcome
from MAKE:
01: Make Premiere page 7
Crack Open an iPAQ
Replacing your PDA's battery requires the proper knowledge, adequate courage, and a set of Torx screwdrivers.
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DIY: Home Entertainment
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01: Make Premiere page 119
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The Power of Steam
A steam-powered sawmill survives.
From MAKE:
17: Lost Knowledge page 52
MAKE: Online Extras
Unsafe At Any Amperage?
Behind the scenes of our high-voltage dilemma: whether to publish a dangerously cool project in MAKE magazine's "Fringe" issue.
by Tom Anderson, Gareth Branwyn, Shawn Connally, Dale Dougherty, Mark Frauenfelder, Joe Grand, Saul Griffith, William Gurstelle, Bunnie Huang, Tom Igoe, Mister Jalopy, Steve Lodefink, John MacNeill, David Pescovitz, Charles Platt, Paul Spinrad, Phillip Torrone;
March 16, 2007
