How-To: Recycled Book Art Kit
Turn a worn or outdated hardcover into an awesome portable art studio with this recycled book art kit tutorial!
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The Biblio-Mat: A Random Book Dispensing Machine
The Monkey’s Paw is an antiquarian bookstore in Toronto that now also houses the worldโs first randomizing vending machine for old books โ the Biblio-mat.
Vintage Tomorrows Book Signing at Powell’s Books Cedar Hills Crossing
Check out the book signing for MAKE’s steampunk book, Vintage Tomorrows, at the Cedar Hills Powell’s Books in Beaverton, OR: Monday, March 25th @ 7:00PM.
MAKE Asks: Books that Inspire you to Make
MAKE Asks: is a weekly column where we ask you, our readers, for responses to maker-related questions. We hope the column sparks interesting conversation and is a way for us to get to know more about each other.
Lindsay’s Technical Books Ships Last Catalog
I think I was fourteen or fifteen when I received my first Lindsay’s catalog, ordered from a print ad in the back pages of Popular Science or Popular MechanicsโI don’t recall which. “Build Lightning Bolt Generators!” it trumpeted. “Melt Metal! Rediscover Lost Technology!” I clipped along the dotted line and sent $3.00, cash, through the US mail. I’ve been a regular buyer ever since.
Books Printed with Complete RGB Color Space
If you’ve ever used an image editing program, you’ve probably seen the RGB color space represented as a unit cube, with red, green, and blue on the three axes. Now an artist has created a physical representation of that model in book form.
Text Tool: Eight Amazing Engineering Stories
Regular readers will probably recognize Bill Hammack’s name, by now, and require no introduction to him or his work. Engineer Guy series #4 is the first to include a companion book. Bill sent me a copy of Eight Amazing Engineering Stories back in May, shortly after the first video in the new series came out, and I read it more-or-less as intended, following along with each of its eight chapters as the corresponding videos were released.
