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MAKE chosen as one of Paste’s best mags for 2010!

MAKE chosen as one of Paste’s best mags for 2010!

We’re thrilled to find out that MAKE has been chosen as one of Paste Magazine’s best mags for 2010. We’re in some great company, along with Wired, Esquire, The Economist, The Atlantic, and others. We, of course, especially like the line: “…the five-year-old title has out popular-mechanic-ed Popular Mechanics.” Kudos to everyone on the MAKE […]

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Intern’s Corner: Yagi Antenna

Intern’s Corner: Yagi Antenna

MAKE’s awesome interns tell about the projects they’re building in the Make: Labs, the trouble they’ve gotten into, and what they’ll make next. By Tyler Moskowite, engineering intern One of my all-time favorite projects to build has to be the Yagi Antenna from Make: Volume 24. The Yagi Antenna tunes into satellites orbiting the Earth […]

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MAKE magazine physical easter egg finally discovered

MAKE magazine physical easter egg finally discovered

It took five years, but a reader–specifically Flickr user Tom Arthur–finally figured out the secret feature we designed into the magazine, oh very much definitely on purpose, back in 2005: It’s sized to fit perfectly inside a classic NES case. Tom is now the only reader able to equip the Soldering Iron of 1000 Truths. Congrats! [Thanks, Tom!]

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Top 10: Most controversial posts

Top 10: Most controversial posts

Although many of us bloggers grimaced to read your comments when these posts first went up, time heals all wounds, and we’ve been having a great time on the mailing list bandying about our memories of our best/worst “ouch” moments from Make: Online and CRAFT. I’ve compiled a list of the top/bottom 10 best/worst posts from our trip down memory lane, and have included the best/worst outraged comment, from each, to summarize. Enjoy!

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How-To: Make a  spectrograph (from MAKE Volume 24)

How-To: Make a $20 spectrograph (from MAKE Volume 24)

Want to discover the chemical make-up of distant stars and planets? Use a spectroscope. It displays a little rainbow of visible-light spectrum that’s emitted by a star (or reflected by a planet). Each element in the periodic table has its own spectral signature — say, bright emission lines in the red band, or dark absorption […]

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Where to find Make: Ultimate Workshop and Tool Guide 2011

Where to find Make: Ultimate Workshop and Tool Guide 2011

Secret sauce for your workshop, and smart gifts for the makers on your list — you’ll be smitten with our new special issue, Make: Ultimate Workshop & Tool Guide 2011. So where can you find it? And what if you’re a MAKE subscriber? Make: Ultimate Workshop and Tool Guide 2011 is displayed prominently in bookstores […]

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