Volume 19: Make Vol. 19 features a special section on robots. Learn how to make a model plane with an autopilot and a small robot with a built-in brain. We’ll also show you how to make a comfortable plywood chair, a bicyclist’s vest that shows how fast you’re going, and projects that introduce you to servomotors. All this, and much more in Make Vol. 19, on newsstands August 18!
https://makezine.com/19
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MAKE, Vol. 18 is on newsstands now! Here’s a video preview for the newest edition, which is all about DIY energy, gardening, conserving resources, and human power. Check out https://makezine.com/18/ for more info.
Here’s MAKE Volume 17! It’s all about lost knowledge. Learn about technologies of the past, updated with a 21st century twist. Electricity machines, a steam-powered saw mill, and vintage-style balsa wood RC plane. Check it out at makezine.com/17
No mission is impossible when makers put their minds to it. Make Volume 16 will help you get smart with a special section on spy tech. Learn how to build and use tiny surveillance devices, and how to know if a spy is using them on you. From tiny video cameras to sneaky recorders, this volume has enough cool stuff to make James Bond’s inventor Q envious.
https://makezine.com/16/
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Keep an eye-out for Make Vol. 14, which has a special section on optics. You’ll learn how to make an inexpensive but powerful digital microscope that will allow you to display bacteria colonies on a video monitor, a vintage-looking opaque projector that can display artwork from books onto a wall, a model of a crazy-angled room that makes things appear to change size, and a cool kaleidoscope. Also in the issue, we’ll show you how to build the following: a mesmerizing taffy pulling machine, a remote control dune buggy with a built in video camera, a dollar-store parabolic microphone, and many more fun and fascinating projects.
Watching an animated robot is certainly amusing, but interacting with a robot is an experience! you can make interactive robots with unique personalities out of many common toys using the EZ-B Robot Controller (http://ez-robot.com). Check out the complete tutorial in MAKE v27 (https://makezine.com/27).
We’ll be making DIY ecosystems — fully self-supporting and sealed from the outside world, with some plants, animals, and a few drops of pond scum, in a Mason jar. These same biospheres sell in airline catalogs for hundreds of dollars.
