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YouTube Makers Doing 30 Videos in 30 Days

YouTube Makers Doing 30 Videos in 30 Days

Two well-known YouTube woodworkers challenge each other to a month of making and video documentation.

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MakeShift 27 Deadline in Three Weeks

MakeShift 27 Deadline in Three Weeks

The deadline to turn in solutions for Volume 27’s MakeShift challenge is in three weeks! Put on your thinking caps. You need to figure out a way to provide safe drinking water for your family after an accident at the nuclear power plant upstream from you.

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MakeShift 26 Deadline Tomorrow

MakeShift 26 Deadline Tomorrow

Okay, all you creative problem solvers! Tomorrow (Aug. 26, 2011) is the deadline to turn in solutions to the MakeShift scenario that was featured in MAKE Volume 26. The Scenario: While on an early winter camping trip you get caught in a snowstorm, which you handily survive (see Volume 22, “MakeShift: Snowbound”). But when you […]

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Photo-Chopping a Sunny Day in Tahoe for MAKE Volume 26

Photo-Chopping a Sunny Day in Tahoe for MAKE Volume 26

Check out the Photoshop steps our former creative director, Sean DallasKidd, took to accomplish the snowstorm in the MakeShift for MAKE Volume 26. Jen Siska was the photographer. On the day of the shoot, the sun unexpectedly came out. The shadows from the sun on the trees were too contrasty, and there was no snow […]

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NASA Make: Challenge Submission Guidelines

We’ve published the rules and guidelines for the 2011 NASA Make: Challenge, which invites makers to propose kits that high school students can build in their classrooms to explore a scientific, technical, or math concept by flying the kits on a suborbital rocket flight. Proposals for the NASA Make: Challenge should be submitted electronically to […]

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MAKE Volume 25 Zombie Attack

MAKE Volume 25 Zombie Attack

When MacGyver creator and author of our MakeShift feature Lee Zlotoff sent us the text for the current issue, we instantly knew it was going to be a fun photo shoot to set up. If you’re not familiar with MakeShift, it’s a challenge that’s posed in each volume of MAKE, where you’re given a scenario, […]

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