Laura Kiniry
Laura Kiniry is a San Francisco-based freelance writer who's busy snapping photos and learning design when she's not writing articles and guidebooks.Author of these Magazine Articles
Shredding the Chopper
San Francisco musician Michael Gaughan builds crazy guitars to play on tour with his metal/punk/rock band.
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Made on Earth
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32: Design for Makers page 24
Achieving Balance
Tired of walking to the supermarket from his dorm, 21-year-old MIT computer science and electrical engineering student Stephan Boyer decided he needed a quicker way to travel.
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Made on Earth
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31: Punk Science page 21
Solar Dune Buggy
Brothers Michael and Kenny Ham have a goal: to create cheap electric vehicles that get people interested in renewable energy.
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29: DIY Superhuman page 22
Big Wheels Turnin'
Friends Fred Abels and Maik ter Veer made the Dicyclet - a bicycle with wheels that ride parallel instead of in a line, with the driver suspended below the axle.
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Made on Earth
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28: Toys and Games page 22
Pooled Resources
Rather than sink money into filling in or restoring their run-down swimming pool, Dennis and Danielle McClung transformed it into a desert greenhouse.
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Made on Earth
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26: Karts and Wheels page 23
Backyard in Motion
Retired mechanical contractor Bill McHugh has spent more than 40 years creating fun kinetic sculptures that run on air, sun, water, birds, and most typically, squirrels.
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25: Microcontrollers and Arduino page 24
The Lawn Rider
Former Navy aviation machinist Ted Wojcik built a pedal-powered lawn mower.
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24: Space page 23
Bright Lights, Big Installation
Firefly 1440 is an LED display of dancing light patterns based on the wind's force, timing, and direction.
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Made on Earth
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23: Gadgets page 20
Come On, Sweat!
Waste to Work is a project that explores sweat as a catalyst for energy.
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Made on Earth
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23: Gadgets page 25
Network Tormentations
Constraint City is a fetish-inspired piece that explores the realm between public and private space.
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22: Remote Control / Wireless page 22
Emotional Aquatics
Axolotl is a 3D audiovisual display attracting onlookers with a digitized squid-like creature that responds to facial recognition by simulating a sense of interaction and involvement.
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21: Desktop Manufacturing page 21
All We Can Say Is, WoW
With help from artist Marisa Jahn and Steve Shada, MIT Media Lab research assistant Cati Vaucelle created the WoW Pod, a cocoon that structures a relationship between your physical body and your avatar, she says.
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Made on Earth
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19: Robots page 25
Trailer (Re)Made
Paul Villinski's Emergency Response Studio, a FEMA-style trailer transformed into a fully functional, sustainably built mobile artist studio.
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18: ReMake America page 22
Power to the People
An inventor turns spinning wheels into generators for rural India.
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Made on Earth
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17: Lost Knowledge page 22
A World of Brick
Nathan Sawaya sculpts with Legos.
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Handmade
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CRAFT:
10: Celebrate! page 18
Nouveau Fiche
Crafter Julie Yu weaves with reels of 1960s and 70s New York Times microfilm.
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Handmade
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10: Celebrate! page 19
Everyday Extraordinary
Interaction designer JooYoun Paek's (anything but) routine interpretations.
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Crafter
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10: Celebrate! page 30
Festivals Around the World
Celebrate traditional and offbeat crafts at these international events.
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10: Celebrate! page 38
Second Lives
A roundup of resourceful crafters who revive all manner of objects.
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09: Crafting Green page 54










