If you’ve been waiting patiently for your local newsstand or book megalomart to get in their copies of the latest MAKE (Volume 26), it’s here! So, step onto your homemade Segway, into your gasified truck, or climb onto your three-story freak bike, and get down there while supplies last. We made this issue just for […]
Should patented, patent-pending, or copyrighted projects NOT be in MAKE? This is the question that has been raised around Mikal Hart‘s Reverse Geocache Puzzlebox project from MAKE Volume 25. It’s a clever project. Where geocaching is a game of high-tech hide and seek game, with players using GPS to find a hidden “cache” of trinkets, […]
Through his company Images Scientific Instruments, John Iovine has been designing, making, and selling Geiger counters for nearly 15 years. MAKE’s Paul Spinrad talked with him about the recent run on Geiger counters, how (in)accurate and misleadingly described many of them are, and two new counters he’s designing for MAKE Volume 29: a standalone data-logging […]
On Monday AM, we rolled out a few changes to the stage.makezine.com homepage. If you’re used to coming to the site through blog.stage.makezine.com, you might want to start coming in through the front door. Every day, we’ll be updating the three-image gallery at the top with links to popular posts, projects, special features, contests, and […]
Roll Into Spring with MAKE Volume 26: “Karts and Wheels” Garage go-kart building is a time-honored hobby for do-it-yourselfers, and we’ve got plans and articles to help you build wheeled wonders that’ll have you and the kids racing around the neighborhood in DIY style. Build a longboard skateboard by bending plywood. Propel a go-kart with […]
Part of the charming special section opener illustration, by Juan Leguizamon, for MAKE Volume 26 As you likely know, the next issue of MAKE, now wending its way to subscribers (hitting newsstands by April 26) , is themed “Karts and Wheels.” While working on it, and its numerous projects and features (covering go-karts, scooters, skateboards, […]
I spent most of 2008 researching my novel For the Win, which is largely set in the factory cities of South China’s Pearl River Delta. If you own something stamped MADE IN CHINA (and you do!), chances are it was made in one of these cities, where tens of millions of young women have migrated […]
