MAKE Magazine’s special Ultimate Workshop and Tool Guide 2011 reveals the top tools and tricks for today’s DIY “maker” workshop — not just woodworking, but metalworking, electronics, robotics, computerized milling, 3D printing, and more. Whether you need a gift for the do-it-yourselfer who loves technology, or you want to rev up your own workshop in 2011, this guide shows you how.
Packed with step-by-step photo instructions and reviews of more than 200 tools for the modern maker, the special issue includes:
- How to build a MakerBot 3D printer to print your own plastic parts and
prototypes - An exclusive visit to MythBusters’ Adam Savage’s new personal workshop
- What you need to get started in hobby electronics
- How to make heirloom-quality “workhorses” with mortise-and-tenon woodworking
- How to solder and desolder
- Organize a “hackerspace” with other makers and stock it with high-tech tools
- The Maker’s Ultimate Tools and Buying Guide to help you build nearly anything, by inventor Saul Griffith, a MacArthur Fellowship winner
- How to build your own strong workbenches and storage
- Amazing workshops, from Mister Jalopy’s garage to Nathan Myrhvold’s lab
- A hide-away workbench for small spaces
- The Barrage Garage: an all-purpose workshop, built from the ground up and stocked with basic tools and materials
- Computerize your cutting: make your own CNC router for less than $800
- Reviews of more than 200 tools including:
- Gadgets and Multitools
- CNC and 3D Fabrication
- Electronics and Robotics
- Workspaces
- Metalworking and Machining
- Woodworking and Construction
Plus you’ll get the Maker’s Bill of Rights, the Rocketman’s Garage, and more, in MAKE’s Ultimate Workshop and Tool Guide — available now in the Maker Shed, and at local newstands.
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