Gareth Branwyn

Gareth Branwyn is a freelance writer and the former Editorial Director of Maker Media. He is the author or editor of over a dozen books on technology, DIY, and geek culture. He is currently a contributor to Boing Boing, Wink Books, and Wink Fun. His free weekly-ish maker tips newsletter can be found at garstipsandtools.com.

Latest from Gareth Branwyn

Help Brandon make a water fountain

02/01/2008

From the MAKE mailroom: I am working on a project but I’m missing some critical know-how on building models and...

Squirt gun modding

02/01/2008

This Instructable shows you how easy it is to turn a cheap plastic squirt gun into a much fancier, more...

Folding bike wheel

02/01/2008

The aim is to try to get a really high end city bike or courier bike that can fold up...

Automated SMD component cutter

01/31/2008

Custom playing card boxes

01/31/2008

Here’s a site with PDFs for making custom cardboard boxes for Poker-, Bridge-size and “big deck” playing card boxes. There’s...

Computational, generative art

01/31/2008

Jared Tarbell is an artist and programmer who does gorgeous computational art, coded in the Processing language. And not only...

The trials of the jet pack

01/31/2008

Popular Mechanics has an informative piece on the many trials and tribulations of the fledgling “jet pack” industry, starting with...

NewScientist vid: Robots inspired by animals

01/30/2008

NewScientist has some nice short science videos on YouTube, including this one surveying various research projects in animal-inspired robot motility....