RSSDavid Pescovitz
David is MAKE's editor-at-large, co-editor of the blog BoingBoing.net, and a research director at Institute for the Future.
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Out of Their Shell
Snapshots from the world of backyard technology.
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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 
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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
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