Made On Earth — White Light / White Heat
One of nine temporary installations commissioned for the 2004 Olympics, “White Noise/White Light” is a hi-tech re-visioning of agrarian bliss.
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Made On Earth — Touch and Go with Sketch-A-Move
If you’ve ever watched a child play with a pinstriped, pint-sized Hot Wheels racer, you may have wondered if the toy car was following some secret, virtual map in that child’s mind. Sketch-a-Move not only proves that the answer is yes, it brings those invisible maps to life.
Maker—Welcome to the Fab Lab
Neil Gershenfeld shows us that personal fabrication can be fabulous. The teacher of MIT’s course “How to Make (Almost) Anything” gives us a tour of the Boston fab lab, one of a growing network of field labs all over the world.
Maker Challenge
Got a problem? Ask MAKE’s readers to solve it for you. Do you find yourself wishing for some kind of machine or system to solve a problem or fulfill a wish? If you have a problem, tell us about it.
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.
