Cartoonist and longtime MAKE contributor Roy Doty has a comic strip in MAKE, called Eureka! Check out the most recent one, from MAKE Volume 26: A hack of a greeting card that plays music. Don’t have this fabulous issue? – Buy the print magazine – Buy the magazine in PDF – Become a MAKE subscriber!
The life of a modern-day maker is greatly eased by the abundance of free or cheap services for hosting communities, files, communications, and computation. But for all the promise of cloud computing, there’s plenty of peril, too, especially for anyone doing anything disruptive. Will your “cloud” evaporate the second your project starts attracting legal threats? […]
Wonderful Maker Faire interview of Adam Savage, conducted by Miles O’Brien, which aired tonight on PBS Newshour. Adam discusses Maker Faire and MAKE, the maker movement, the sad death of shop classes in schools, our current sweet-spot period for hacking the tech in our lives, and the need to embrace a certain degree of danger/risk in learning. A really nice piece.
Micheal Dittman and his daughter Paige built longboards together, based on the article in MAKE Volume 26. Besides this being epically cool and sweet in and of itself, they started the project over Spring Break, but when Paige had to go back to school, they continued to collaborate, finish their projects via Skype and email.
Andy Paiko does some amazing things with glass. Paiko has painstakingly re-created intricate antique machines almost exclusively out of glass, including a seismograph, a spinning wheel, weight scales, and even a large-scale Ben Franklin-esque glass armonica — and yes, they all work. Read more about them in MAKE Volume 26! Don’t have it? Here are […]
Here at headquarters, we just wrapped up the newest issue of MAKE, Volume 27, the Robot issue. Look for it on newsstands on July 26th. While we were working on the issue, we were curious to see what kinds of bots our community members were making and thought it would be fun to host a little contest. The premise of the contest was simple: we were looking for bots with lots of character.
Out of the pages of the most recent issue of MAKE: California artist Chris Burden built a Hot Wheels track of epic proportions. Burden’s kinetic sculpture Metropolis II is a mesmerizing cityscape where 1,100 toy cars blaze down 18 lanes of freeways in endless loops. The work took Burden, his chief engineer Zak Cook, and […]
