Yesterday we sent out our second issue of the new Make: Newsletter. It contains news of goings on at Maker Media, several original columns (including the second installment of my Maker’s Dictionary column), and special Shed and magazine deals for newsletter subscribers only. Next month, we’re even going to launch a mini-projects column. You can […]
Mark Frauenfelder and Dan Woods got sent this letter about the latest issue of MAKE, Volume 20. We got the sender’s permission to post it here: Mark and Dan, This is Jim Kelly, the freelance tech writer in Atlanta. Hope you guys are doing well. Just wanted to write and tell you how impressed and […]
In July, 1969, a ham radio operator named Larry Baysinger, from Louisville, KY, used a 20-year old radio from an army tank and a homemade folded dipole antenna array to listen to the Apollo 11 astronauts on the moon. This page is an archive with the original newspaper piece, photos, PDFs of a couple of […]
Virgil England installed and photographed this life-size dragon skeleton in Chugach National Forest in Alaska in 1990. In his own words:
Don’t forget, we’re now publishing a monthly Make: Newsletter. The November edition will be emailed out this coming week. The newsletter covers news and happenings around Maker Media, what’s going on here at Make: Online, and contains original material, such as my new “Maker’s Dictionary” column, a growing glossary of perennial tech terms and cutting-edge […]
MAKE columnist and Boing Boing super-blogger, Cory Doctorow, has just released his latest novel, called Makers(!) I just got my copy and tucked into it. So far, so awesome. Cory’s books always crackle with such amazing ideas, technological and cultural hacks, that seem just over the horizon, or already in some sketchy warehouse or nerd’s […]
Here’s a channel NY1 report on the recent Pop!Tech conference in Camden, ME. The piece profiles three MAKE contributors, Reuben Margolin, Zach Debord, and Mike Gould. Reuben has shown his work and spoken at Maker Faire, Zach Debord’s BEAMbots have been featured in MAKE (and on the cover of The Best of MAKE), and Mike […]
