David Pescovitz

David is MAKE's editor-at-large, co-editor of the blog BoingBoing.net, and a research director at Institute for the Future.

Author of these Magazine Articles

Out of Their Shell
Snapshots from the world of backyard technology.
In Made on Earth from MAKE: 16: Spy Tech page 18

Timothy and the Chocolate Factory
How a space shuttle technologist and the founder of Wired magazine hacked together a homebrew chocolate lab.
In Proto from MAKE: 14: Optics page 28

Making Magic
The magician's magician, illusion designer John Gaughan is the man behind the curtain.
In Proto from MAKE: 13: Magic page 32

Hard Wood
Lee Stoetzel recreates iconic products like Harley-Davidsons, Macs, and Big Macs entirely out of wood.
In Made on Earth from MAKE: 12: Upload page 20

Games That Games Play
New York artist Paul Johnson networks custom video games that play each other.
In Made on Earth from MAKE: 11: Alt Vehicles page 21

Power Tripping Download PDF.Download Sample PDF
High-voltage engineer Greg Leyh builds the largest Tesla coils in the world.
In Proto from MAKE: 11: Alt Vehicles page 40

Burn to Learn
The Crucible industrial arts school's community of practice.
In Proto from MAKE: 10: Home Electronics page 42

Turn On, Tune In, Bliss Out
Dr. James Hardt hopes his DIY neurofeedback tech will fire up the global brain.
In Proto from MAKE: 09: Fringe page 42

Prototype That
Maker-for-hire Kevin Binkert shows us around his San Francisco workshop.
In Workshop from MAKE: 09: Fringe page 112

Handmade
Faux taxidermy, fabric brain art, river-rock ceramics, blown-glass rayguns, and Burning Man's favorite 80-foot flower.
In Handmade from CRAFT: 02: Creative Clones page 14

Mark Pauline's Machine Mayhem
For nearly three decades, Survival Research Laboratories has redirected the technology of industry, science, and the military to create the most dangerous theater on Earth.
In Maker from MAKE: 07: Backyard Biology page 28

Made On Earth
Report from the world of backyard technology.
In Made on Earth from MAKE: 06: Robots page 18

Space Cases
The balloon men at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
In Proto from MAKE: 06: Robots page 40

C.S. and the City
Intel researcher Eric Paulos makes things that give their owners a new way of understanding their daily lives.
In Proto from MAKE: 05: Science, Weather, and Outdoors page 40

Proto: Where Bits Meet Flesh
IBM's Thomas Zimmerman and the "thrill of the make."
In Proto from MAKE: 04: Music and Kits for the Holidays page 60

Dorkbot
Warehouse of wild, weird, and wonderful projects. A profile on the monthly (or thereabouts) meetings of "people doing strange things with electricity" all over the world.
From MAKE: 01: Make Premiere page 47


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