Kyle Machulis — Hardware Hacker
Reverse engineering guru works to unlock our personal data.
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Make Free — The Half-Life of Stuff
Here’s what gets me excited about making: it lets you build stuff the way we build software.
Making Makers — Real Tools for Kids
Recently, while looking online for woodworking tools appropriately sized for my preschool daughter, I was intrigued by one kit that promised “real” construction play. Real: yes. Realistic: no.
Made On Earth — DIY Segway
Mechanical engineering student Charles Guan built a homemade Segway, called the Segfault, with some rather impressive geek cred. It uses absolutely no software, microprocessors, or other digital logic.
Made On Earth — Gravity Harps for Björk
I had tried to stop making musical machines but kept getting offers I couldn’t refuse. I thought I’d quit this crazy business if I could just pull off one last job — the big one. Then I met Björk at the MIT Media Lab. She needed some musical robots. This was big.
Made On Earth — Solar Dune Buggy
Brothers Michael and Kenny Ham have a goal: to create cheap electric vehicles that get people interested in renewable energy. In 2009, they built Three-Wheeled Electric Alternative by KinAestheticWind (TWEAK), a solar-powered three-wheeler.
Made On Earth — Pipe Dreams
In a public park near the German city of Essen, on redeveloped industrial land about 30 miles east of the Dutch border, there is a very unusual hotel.
