Phillip Torrone
Phillip is Senior Editor of MAKE Magazine. 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 & electronic kit company. Prior to MAKE, Phillip was Director of Product Development for creative firm Fallon Worldwide, best known for their award-winning films.
Author of these Magazine Articles
The {Unspoken} Rules of Open Source Hardware
I spend most of my days working on open source hardware in some way, and I want to talk about some of the unspoken rules we all seem to follow.
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Soapbox
from MAKE:
32: Design for Makers page 12
The Flora
Adafruit's new wearable electronics platform.
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Features
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32: Design for Makers page 61
Zen and the Art of Making
If you don’t know the boundaries of something, for a brief time your ideas are boundless.
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Soapbox
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30: Smarter Homes page 28
Is It Time to Retool Public LIbraries as TechShops?
Unless libraries are seen as the future, we might just lose them.
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Soapbox
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28: Toys and Games page 28
Tweet-a-Watt Power Monitor
Build a wireless electricity monitor for about $50, and twitter your kilowatts.
From MAKE:
18: ReMake America page 112
Toolbox
Binoculars for beginners, über-accurate torque,
a tea-serving robot, and 100 monsters.
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Toolbox
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15: Music page 172
Toolbox
All the awl you'll need, a kit to build your own yo-yo, wireless SD memory cards, and the maker before MacGyver.
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Toolbox
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13: Magic page 190
Toolbox
From fuzzy sensors to underwater ROVs to your very own eco-friendly surfboard.
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Toolbox
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12: Upload page 166
Toolbox
The best tools, software, publications, and websites. Plus: Favorite Things as chosen by the bike-crazed editors of Momentum magazine.
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Toolbox
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11: Alt Vehicles page 174
Cabinet of Horrors
Freakish creations of wonder and mystery.
From MAKE:
halloween2007: Halloween page 18
Ghoulbox
Our favorite tools, websites, and tips for Halloween, from Soundbugs to edible bugs, gross-out cakes to movable monsters.
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halloween2007: Halloween page 118
Roomba Hacks
Don't let your Roomba just collect dust when you can hack, mod, and take over the world with your own (cleaning) robot army.
From MAKE:
10: Home Electronics page 67
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
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
iTune In, Turn On, Make Stuff
Looking for a weekend project or steam-powered robots? All aboard! Take a tour of the new video features, including projects, interviews, and virtual tours.
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Tales from the Web
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07: Backyard Biology page 187
Toolbox
The best tools, software, gadgets, books, magazines, and websites.
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Toolbox
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06: Robots page 174
Roomba Tronic
Take a tour into the underground robotic relentlessness of Roomba hacks, robots in the streets of Austin, and robot cockfighting.
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Tales from the Web
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06: Robots page 188
Weird USB
Plug into a world of novelty.
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DIY: Mobile
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05: Science, Weather, and Outdoors page 126
Pushing Electrons
Bots, how-tos, and virtual worlds all on the MAKE: Blog. Take a tour of what's new with Associate Editor Philip Torrone.
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Tales from the Web
from MAKE:
05: Science, Weather, and Outdoors page 188
CVS Hackathon
Gadgeteer and hacker Phillip Torrone blogs daily, pointing out DIY projects as well as showcasing his own how-to solutions. You can find blogs, podcasts, and images at makezine.com.
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Tales from the Web
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04: Music and Kits for the Holidays page 180
Made on Earth
Reports from the world of backyard technology, including a shopping cart go-kart, the "Solar Death Ray," a demolished house sculpture, a gas tank bass instrument, and some seriously big speakers.
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Made on Earth
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03: Cars and Halloween page 16
Mod Your Rod
James Bond depended on Q to trick out his cars. But with Make's guide to car hacking, you'll learn how to turn your ride into a fully loaded, grease-eating, MP3-blasting, Wi-Fi-transmitting monster machine.
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03: Cars and Halloween page 49
Making a Macswagen
Adding a Mac mini to a VW: a pro tells us how he did it. Matt Turner is a professional fabricator and installer of mobile electronics. He's been working in the industry for 12 years and has built numerous award-winning show vehicles. His latest project brings hope to all car owners hoping to Macify their ride.
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03: Cars and Halloween page 54
Print the Universe
Make gigantic posters with a free web service.
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DIY: Imaging
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03: Cars and Halloween page 127
Podcasting 101
Produce and syndicate audio interviews you record online, on the phone, and on the road.
From MAKE:
02: Home Entertainment page 86
DVD, Uncrippled
Input a special code to disable Macrovision and play DVDs from around the world.
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DIY: Home Entertainment
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02: Home Entertainment page 127
Stop Motion Animation, the Easy Way
With iStopMotion, making Gumby is less pokey.
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DIY: Imaging
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02: Home Entertainment page 129
Mod Your Pod
Enhance your iPod with a Linux upgrade.
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DIY: Mobile
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02: Home Entertainment page 135
All-Seeing Orb
Your mobile device can play video and music stored on your home computer.
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DIY: Mobile
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02: Home Entertainment page 140
Game Boy Hacks
Games, music, movies, photos, and eBooks, all on this versatile little device.
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DIY: Gaming
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02: Home Entertainment page 153
Get an iLIFE! for Your Playstation Portable
Play music and vids on a PSP (even Mac users).
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DIY: Gaming
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02: Home Entertainment page 156
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Home Energy Dashboards
New ways to see your power usage in real time.
From MAKE:
18: ReMake America page 48
Safety Spectrometer
Device identifies dangerous liquids by analyzing light.
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DIY: Science
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14: Optics page 134
MAKE: Online Extras
Open Source Hardware: What Is It?
by Phillip Torrone;
May 04, 2007
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
How To: Make Enhanced Podcasts
Here's everything you need to know about enhanced podcasts: how to get them, how to make them, and some fun ideas for what you can do with them.
by Phillip Torrone;
January 03, 2006
How To: Get MSN Filter News (or Any RSS) on a SPOT Watch
MSN Filter is a new blog with some pretty good posts about tech, music, etc. Since it is from MSN, I assumed that it would be a channel I could add to my MSN Direct SPOT watch. But no, MSN Filter isn't one of the pre-chosen available options on the watch. Here's how to get MSN Filter, or any other news via RSS, onto a SPOT watch.
by Phillip Torrone;
January 03, 2006
How To: iPod Nano Hacking
The iPod nano isn't as hackable as its older cousins (yet). But you can still do a few things to make it your own, such as change the text strings, the fonts, and the graphics that appear onscreen. This article will show you how to use a PC to customize the text and fonts on your iPod nano, and how to use a Mac to customize the graphics.
by Phillip Torrone;
January 03, 2006
How To: Play Video on a Pre-Video iPod (iPod photo)
The newest, fifth-generation iPods play video, but you can also play videos with sound on your "old" iPod photo (or fourth-gen iPod mini), using the latest version of podzilla (Linux for the iPod). Here's a quick how-to on installing podzilla, using a Mac, so you can watch videos and do other fun things.
by Phillip Torrone;
January 03, 2006
How To: DIY GPS tracking with Mologogo
by Phillip Torrone;
December 20, 2005
How To: Run Homebrew Apps on Your PlayStation Portable (PSP)
Want to do more with your PSP than just play prepackaged, commercial titles? Thanks to the community of PSP tinkerers out there, there are emulators, cool homebrew applications, and thousands of games that you can run on your PSP for free. Liberating your PSP is easy; here's a quick how-to.
by Phillip Torrone;
November 21, 2005
How To: Make a Windows Vista/Longhorn-Style Auxiliary Display
This article shows how to make your own laptop auxiliary display. It describes a great and cheap way to mount an LCD onto a PC case, and how to use Konfabulator (which is now free) to build a versatile interface "widget" that runs on the display.
by Phillip Torrone;
November 21, 2005
Inside a Wolfgang Puck self-heating can...
by Phillip Torrone;
November 21, 2005
How To: Make a Powerbook in to a Wi-Fi access point!
by Phillip Torrone;
November 21, 2005
How To: Liberate the Sony Librie E-ink reader
by Phillip Torrone;
November 21, 2005
