Summertime: Tiny BBQs, What You're Reading in MAKE, and Photo Roundup!

MAKE Newsletter for August 5, 2008

Summertime projects, pictures, and reading from the coolest makers on Earth: you!

"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer." —Albert Camus

Summer is still going strong, and we've seen more projects than ever before on the MAKE blog. My favorite project of the week is a tiny BBQ made by Alex; it's made from an Altoids tin! See something cool online that a maker made? Send it to us!

http://makezine.com/blog/

What are you making? Post up your photos in the MAKE Flickr photo pool: we pick the good, the bad, and the ugly each week and serve them up. Where else will you see remote-controlled ducks and vacuum tube earrings?

Lastly, MAKE Volume 14 is on newsstands. With the MAKE Digital Edition we can keep track of the most popular articles -- check them out and see if these are the same articles you're reading.

Cheers,
pt

phillip torrone
MAKE m a g a z i n e
senior editor
http://www.makezine.com

From the MAKE Blog

Homemade tiny BBQ fits in your pocket... made from an Altoids tin?

Wow, check out this homemade tiny BBQ fits in your pocket... looks like it was made from an Altoids tin...

What you're reading in MAKE 14

Here are the most read articles in MAKE: Volume 14, on newsstands now!

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Living Room Baja Buggies by John Mouton. With wireless cameras on board, these radio-controlled racers give you virtual reality telepresence. Page 96. Living Room Baja Buggies.

Scanner Camera by Mike Golembewski. Mod a flatbed scanner to take photos that decontruct time and motion. Page 78. Scanner Camera

Page Yourself by Brian O'Heir. When you want to put up your own website, how free can a freebie be? Page 88. Page Yourself.

Timothy and the Chocolate Factory by David Pescovitz. How a space shuttle technologist and the founder of Wired magazine hacked together a homebrew chocolate lab. Page 28. Timothy and the Chocolate Factory.

Yabba Dabba DIY by Ed Troxell. Bill LeMaster built the Flintstone car for his grandkids' Halloween costume. Page 22. Yabba Dabba DIY .

Lensless Microscope by Tom Zimmerman. A webcam's image chip is an ultrafine shadow-imaging stage. Page 64. Lensless Microscope.

Status: Stinky by Bruce Stewart. Want someone to know how many times you applied deodorant today? Neither do the creators of Zero Privacy. Page 20. Status: Stinky.