The Maker File

Young Punkin Chunkin (slideshow)

Dale Dougherty and Bill Gurstelle of MAKE Magazine visit the Punkin Chunkin World Championships in Millsboro, Delaware. Lots of families come to Punkin Chunkin, some of them for all of the twenty-one years the event has existed. And many of them are local to the area near Millsboro, Delaware. In recent years, even the sons […]

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The Maker File: Punkin Chunkin 2006, Part two…

The Maker File: Punkin Chunkin 2006, Part two…

Dale Dougherty and Bill Gurstelle of Make Magazine visit the Punkin Chunkin World Championships in Millsboro, Delaware. In part two, we listen to a couple of centrifugal throwers: Bad to the Bone and JD Lazarus. Then we meet one of the Yankees behind Yankee Siege, Steve Seigars, a dentist from New Hampshire whose team has […]

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The Maker File: The Punkin Chunkin (slide show)

Dale Dougherty and Bill Gurstelle of MAKE Magazine visit the Punkin Chunkin World Championships in Millsboro, Delaware. In this segment, they talk about air cannons with Virginian Ray Tolson, owner and operator of Second Amendment Too. Here’s the slide show version! If you want the MP3, you can grab it here too… – Link.

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The Maker File: The Punkin Chunkin

The Maker File: The Punkin Chunkin

Dale Dougherty and Bill Gurstelle of MAKE Magazine visit the Punkin Chunkin World Championships in Millsboro, Delaware. In this segment, they talk about air cannons with Virginian Ray Tolson, owner and operator of Second Amendment Too. Click here to get the audio (LISTEN – MP3) delivered automatically with iTunes. Or just click the MP3 link […]

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The Maker File: Interview with Michael Schiess, Lucky Ju Ju Pinball Arcadium

The Maker File: Interview with Michael Schiess, Lucky Ju Ju Pinball Arcadium

Volume 8 of MAKE features pinball machine restoration in its Toys and Games section. In this Maker File, we visit the Lucky Ju Ju Pinball Arcadium in Alameda, California. Michael Schiess is the proprietor of Lucky Ju Ju, and a group of us went there to check out the place and take some photograph of […]

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The Maker File: Interview with Marcell Mars

The Maker File: Interview with Marcell Mars

Croatia is the homeland of Nikola Tesla, a world-reknowned geek. Ten years ago, Croatia was at war after the breakup of Yugoslavia and even today is still trying to figure out life after communism. Dale went to Zagreb recently to participate in the Device-Art festival and gave a talk about “Geek Life” at an Internet […]

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The Maker File: Colin Berry reads Spinout

The Maker File: Colin Berry reads Spinout

Here’s a special edition of the “Maker File” – Colin Berry reads Spinout, the story he wrote for Make Volume 07 about his brother’s efforts to build and race a car in the soap box derby in Longmont, Colorado. Unfortunately, he was up against more than just his own bad luck. Introduction by MAKE & […]

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