Welcome
William Gurstelle
Security is a superstition.Page 08
MAKE 35: Danger!
Introducing MAKE Volume 35: the Danger issue! Meet makers who like to play with fire in a variety of ways. If you want to turn up the heat yourself, learn how to make a fire tornado using an old turntable or build your own Six-Pack Tesla Coil. With 23 fantastic DIY projects, find the perfect project for you from building a better projection screen for your living room to remaking a childhood classic with the EZ-Make Oven. So light off some homemade sugar rockets, and celebrate making with an edge!
Table of Contents
Columns
Reader Input
A maker’s life, nano voltages, MonoBox noise, and tremolo power.Page 10
The Maker Kids Are Alright
Andrew Leonard
A trip to Maker Faire Bay Area.Page 14
Maker Faire Calendar
Make: Editors
From New York City to Rome.Page 16
Make the Future with Arduino
David Cuartielles and Massimo Banzi
Meet the new Arduino Robot.Page 18
Made on Earth
The world of backyard technology.Page 20
Features
Stupid Fun Club
Colin Berry
A Berkeley, Calif., company is shaping the future of toy bots.Page 26
Maker Ink
Goli Mohammadi
Seven makers who etched their DIY pride permanently. Page 34
Bringing Makey to Life
Gareth Branwyn
Award-winning comic artist Shannon Wheeler joins MAKE.Page 36
Playing With Fire
Serpent Twins
Goli Mohammadi
Jon Sarriugarte tells about the making of their 50-foot kinetic mobile sculptures.Page 38
Fire Makers
Shane DeRuise
Projects from makers who can stand the heat.Page 44
Fire Tornado
William Gurstelle
Re-create a terrifying force of nature.Page 46
The Six-Pack Tesla Coil
Craig Newswanger
Build a classic spark-gap coil that can throw 15" arcs without pricey commercial caps.Page 48
Brushes with Disaster
Mark Frauenfelder
Readers share their experiments gone awry.Page 66
Homemade Sugar Rocket
William Gurstelle and Gunther Kirsch
Cook up a solid-fuel rocket engine and let it fly.Page 70
6-Foot Sugar Rocket
Dan Pollino
The humble beginnings of a wicked DIY rocket.Page 74
Dry Ice Cannon
William Gurstelle
Unleash carbon dioxide gas to launch T-shirts and other projectiles.Page 76
Projects
Skill Builder: Arduino Waveform
Jon Thompson
Advanced sound synthesis from bit-banging to morphing and fading.Page 80
EZ-Make Oven
Bob Knetzger
A crafty oven in a paint can.Page 88
1+2+3: Coffee Shop Construction Toy
Ian Gonsher
Page 97
Glass Bead Projection Screen
Sean Michael Ragan
Get high gain at low cost using house paint and sandblasting beads.Page 98
Raygun Vector Weapon
Symetricolour
Build a mini, analog, sound effects circuit.Page 102
Lego Phonograph
Josh Burker
Combine WeDo, Lego, and Scratch to awesome effect.Page 108
Bookshelf Boombox
Steve Hoefer
Hide an amplifier and speaker in plain sight.Page 110
TV-Go-Sleep
Nick Normal
Build a universal TV sleep timer.Page 116
Country Scientist
Forrest M. Mims III
How to make and use retroreflectors.Page 121
My Franken-Keepon
Marek Michalowski with Kyle Machulis, Mark Gasson, nd Thiago Hersan
Hack your My Keepon toy into a low-cost animatronic puppet.Page 124
1+2+3: EL Tape LightUp Hoodie
Craig Couden and Julie West
Page 129
Chemical Woodburning
Sean Michael Ragan
Don’t have an iron? Use a stamp to burn your mark!Page 130
Remaking History
William Gurstelle
Ctesibius and the whimsical Tantalus Cup.Page 134
Homebrew
Michael Lewis Wernecke
My electro-chemical Kid Sub.Page 137
DIY Baseball Tees
Brad Huffman
Build a pair of adjustable, durable batting tees for half the price of store-bought.Page 138
Making Pigments
Sean T. McBeth
Use household materials and simple electrolysis to make metal oxide powders for tinting paints.Page 140
Electronics: Fun & Fundamentals
Charles Platt
Make your own chrono photonic lamp switcher.Page 144
Toolbox
A thermoelectric camp stove, soldering tweezers, and an emergency mobile phone.Page 148
New Maker Tech
The latest tools in 3D printing, Arduino, and Raspberry Pi.Page 156
Toy Inventor's Notebook
Make custom cookie cutters.Page 160
