Articles
Bunnie’s Workbench — Glowstick a Go-Go
Bunnie Huang prototypes two kinetic glowsticks: instead of creating a single arc of light, glowsticking dancers can now create their own two-dimensional fantasias.
Categories: Electronics
Dorkbot
Warehouse of wild, weird, and wonderful projects. A profile on the monthly (or thereabouts) meetings of "people doing strange things with electricity" all over the world.
Categories: Hackerspaces
Hacking the Dog
Who says you have to spend thousands of dollars to get a cool robot? The world’s toy stores brim with cheap-ass, rough-and-ready robotic platforms just begging to be modded.
Categories: Robotics
Life Hacks — Yak Shaving
Stuck in the middle of a stack of stuff you're supposed to do? Sharpen your wool clippers, and stop getting distracted by the pointless activities which surround any serious problem...
Categories: Fun & Games
Made On Earth — Beer Blanket
Three years ago, after a bash at his apartment, Adam Hunnell was stuck trying to figure out what to do with a keg full of warm beer. Not one to...
Categories: Art & Design
Made On Earth — Lego Rubik’s Cube Solving Robot
One of the top Lego builders in the world, Jonathan Brown’s most famous creation is 2001’s Cube Solver, the first robot to finish the Rubik’s Cube puzzle.
Categories: Robotics Art & Design
Made On Earth — Desktop Wars
A few years ago, Kaden Harris was engraving brass nameplates for a manufacturer of “employee- recognition products.” Now his scaled-down medieval siege weapons bring heart, soul, and serious brains into...
Categories: Art & Design Fun & Games
Made On Earth — Difference Engine Built From Meccano Parts
Some prefer a nuts-and-bolts approach to computing — like Tim Robinson, who built a version of Charles Babbage’s Difference Engine No. 1 entirely out of Meccano parts.
Categories: Art & Design Computers & Mobile
Made On Earth — Home-Built Monorail
No rational person denies that monorails are the greatest mode of urban transit ever. So Kim Pedersen built one in his backyard, making it the greatest backyard ever.
Categories: Home
Made On Earth — Ridable Model Trains
If the phrase “Live Steam enthusiasts” conjures up visions of health spa devotees huddled over vapor pools, think again.
Categories: Home
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...
Categories: Art & Design
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.
Categories: Art & Design
Make the Tools That Made You
Flintknappers are making the tools that people have been making since before they were human.
Categories: Tools
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...
Categories: General
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...
Categories: Education
MakeShift
Imagine this: Your car battery is dead, and you’re stuck in the woods. Your mission: Get home before you freeze to death.
Categories: Fun & Games
News From the Future
Reality is catching up with science fiction, thanks in a large part to DIY technologies. Tim O'Reilly identifies the laboratory and garage projects that promise to change the way we...
Categories: Maker Pro
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.
Categories: Art & Design
Reader Input
Our regular feature with reader comments sent to the editors of MAKE.
Categories: General
The Open Source Car: A Design Brief
The time is right for a true people's hybrid vehicle. The web is peppered with how-to sites for converting your old car into an electric vehicle, but why not develop...
Categories: Art & Design
Welcome — The Making of Make
The making of Make: Publisher and Editor Dale Dougherty presents the philosophy of MAKE in a nutshell: We're all Makers now.
Categories: General
Projects
Primer — Soldering and Desoldering
Step-by-step instructions for making (and unmaking) the perfect solder joint.
Categories: Electronics
