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				Paul Spinrad
				Paul Spinrad is a broad-spectrum enthusiast, writer, maker, and dad who lives in San Francisco. He hatches schemes at http://investian.com.
 
			 
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                    05/10/2005
                    
                        At Obtainium.net, you can get an old refrigerator (for example), get rid of one, or discuss what kind of art... 
                     
                 
            
        
            
                
                     
                
                
                    
                    05/09/2005
                    
                        Electrist, from Red Binary Development (aka Patrick Griffin), is a $20 PalmOS app that helps anyone who's building or modifying... 
                     
                 
            
        
            
                
                                    
                
                    
                    04/26/2005
                    
                        Two MAKE Extras published today-- these are projects and updates that MAKE publishes online, for all to see, no dead... 
                     
                 
            
        
            
                
                     
                
                
                    
                    04/25/2005
                    
                        You know those hilarious/ridiculous singing animatronic mounted fish? Marty Vona gives full instructions for how to make one utter any... 
                     
                 
            
        
            
                
                     
                
                
                    
                    04/01/2005
                    
                        Like many of us, Matthias Wandel spent a lot of time robotically swapping disks in and out of his CD... 
                     
                 
            
        
            
                
                     
                
                
                    
                    04/01/2005
                    
                        With big, expensive equipment and closely con- trolled experiment schedules, particle physics has never been a field for the do-it-yourselfer.... 
                     
                 
            
        
            
                
                     
                
                
                    
                    04/01/2005
                    
                        Garnet Hertz will never want or need to debug his mobile robot, because it’s controlled by a live cockroach. 
                     
                 
            
        
            
                
                                    
                
                    
                    02/01/2005
                    
                        Some prefer a nuts-and-bolts approach to computing — like Tim Robinson, who built a version of Charles Babbage’s Difference Engine... 
                     
                 
            
        
            
                
                                    
                
                    
                    02/01/2005
                    
                        A few years ago, Kaden Harris was engraving brass nameplates for a manufacturer of “employee- recognition products.” Now his scaled-down... 
                     
                 
            
        
            
                
                                    
                
                    
                    02/01/2005
                    
                        No rational person denies that monorails are the greatest mode of urban transit ever. So Kim Pedersen built one in... 
                     
                 
            
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