Tim Anderson

Tim, founder of Z Corp., has a home at stuff.mit.edu/people/robot/home.html. When not ice-kite-butt-boarding in a rooster-crested motorcycle helmet, he can be found all over the world using and documenting heirloom technologies.

Author of these Magazine Articles

Handy Tricks from Guatemala
Maize tips compiled over 3,000 years of cultivation.
In Heirloom Technology from MAKE: 15: Music page 168

My Homebrew 3D Scanner
Imagine a camera that captures the shapes of things, and a printer that prints out those shapes.
In Homebrew from MAKE: 14: Optics page 192

All-Purpose Swahili Bed
In Kenya, the most common and most useful piece of furniture is the rot- and bedbug-resistant Swahili bed.
In Heirloom Technology from MAKE: 13: Magic page 102

Heirloom Technology
The widowmaker: cutting down a tree.
In Heirloom Technology from MAKE: 12: Upload page 152

Cooking With Trash
The Chinese make fuel briquettes from coal dust, farm waste, scrap wood, and a bit of local red dirt.
In Heirloom Technology from MAKE: 11: Alt Vehicles page 38

Toolbox
The best tools, software, publications, and websites. Plus: Favorite Things as chosen by the bike-crazed editors of Momentum magazine.
In Toolbox from MAKE: 11: Alt Vehicles page 174

Tire Sandals
Solve multiple global problems at once when you make your own sandals from an old tire.
In Heirloom Technology from MAKE: 10: Home Electronics page 40

Instant Hammock
Make your own hammock in less time than it takes to read this.
In Heirloom Technology from MAKE: 09: Fringe page 40

Charlie Asquith's Jet Dory
Charlie is 78 years old and he's been fishing for mullet in Hawks Nest, Australia, for over 60 years.
In Heirloom Technology from MAKE: 08: Toys and Games page 40

Shopping Cart Chair
Turn a shopping cart into a comfortable and stylish wheelchair.
In Heirloom Technology from MAKE: 07: Backyard Biology page 40

Totch Brown's Pit Pan Gator Boat
Start your boat-building hobby by building this one.
In Heirloom Technology from MAKE: 06: Robots page 50

Jackhammer Headphones
And a discourse on blind men, chipmunks, whales, and the future.
In Heirloom Technology from MAKE: 05: Science, Weather, and Outdoors page 56

Chinese Ingenuity
Look for the technology of the future in the oldest civilization!
In Heirloom Technology from MAKE: 04: Music and Kits for the Holidays page 38

Swamp Tech
Revisiting, revamping, and reusing forgotten technology: living free in the Florida Everglades.
In Heirloom Technology from MAKE: 03: Cars and Halloween page 36

Nicaraguan Know-How
Revisiting, revamping, and reusing forgotten technology. Tim Anderson describes the homemade solutions he saw on a recent trip to Nicaragua: hand-pedaled bicycles, reused school buses, horse-drawn carriages, sock coffee filters, and ancient cooling systems and water filters abound.
In Heirloom Technology from MAKE: 02: Home Entertainment page 30

Heirloom Technology
Finding the technology of the future from the forgotten ideas of the past.
In Heirloom Technology from MAKE: 01: Make Premiere page 38

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Handy Tricks from Guatemala
Maize tips compiled over 3,000 years of cultivation.
In Heirloom Technology from MAKE: 15: Music page 168

My Homebrew 3D Scanner
Imagine a camera that captures the shapes of things, and a printer that prints out those shapes.
In Homebrew from MAKE: 14: Optics page 192

All-Purpose Swahili Bed
In Kenya, the most common and most useful piece of furniture is the rot- and bedbug-resistant Swahili bed.
In Heirloom Technology from MAKE: 13: Magic page 102

Cooking With Trash
The Chinese make fuel briquettes from coal dust, farm waste, scrap wood, and a bit of local red dirt.
In Heirloom Technology from MAKE: 11: Alt Vehicles page 38

Tire Sandals
Solve multiple global problems at once when you make your own sandals from an old tire.
In Heirloom Technology from MAKE: 10: Home Electronics page 40

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