Reader Input
Our regular feature with reader comments sent to the editors of MAKE.
Q&A — Taking the “Video” Out of Video Game
Most people program video games. Niklas Roy built one, literally. The 30-year-old from Berlin, Germany constructed a fully mechanized facsimile of one of the grand-daddies of video games, Pong.
Make the Tools That Made You
Flintknappers are making the tools that people have been making since before they were human.
Dorkbot
Warehouse of wild, weird, and wonderful projects. A profile on the monthly (or thereabouts) meetings of “people doing strange things with electricity” all over the world.
Made On Earth — Difference Engine Built From Meccano Parts
Some prefer a nuts-and-bolts approach to computing — like Tim Robinson, who built a version of Charles Babbage’s Difference Engine No. 1 entirely out of Meccano parts.
Made On Earth — Beer Blanket
Three years ago, after a bash at his apartment, Adam Hunnell was stuck trying to figure out what to do with a keg full of warm beer. Not one to cry into his glass, though, the budding inventor drew up plans for a thermoelectric blanket that would keep kegs to a chilly 32 – 35 degrees F.
Made On Earth — Lego Rubik’s Cube Solving Robot
One of the top Lego builders in the world, Jonathan Brown’s most famous creation is 2001’s Cube Solver, the first robot to finish the Rubik’s Cube puzzle.
