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Volume 01

7: Welcome

Publisher and editor Dale Dougherty presents the philosophy of MAKE in a nutshell: We’re all makers now.

10: Life Hacks: Yak Shaving Time-management techniques for geeks. By Danny O’Brien and Merlin Mann

12: Desktop Rail Gun

Build a miniature magnetic linear accelerator. By Simon Quellen Field

13: Tim O’Reilly

News from the Future: A report on the labs and garage projects changing the way we live.

14: Made On Earth

Amazing things your neighbors have made in the backyard: monorails, steam trains, beer keg coolers, and more.

22: Cory Doctorow

Hacking toy dogs to sniff out toxic waste.

23: Maker: Welcome to the Fab Lab A tour of Neil Gershenfeld’s fab lab at MI T. By D.C. Denison

34: Glowstick A Go-Go Hardware hacker Bunnie Huang explains how he designed and built his pattern-generating LED device.

38: Heirloom Technology Revisiting, revamping, and re-using forgotten technology. By Tim Anderson

44: The Open Source Hybrid Car How to make a car using the same process that led to Linux. By Saul Griffith

47: Dorkbot

In cities around the world, high-voltage hackers meet to show off their robots, gizmos, and movable works of art. By David Pescovitz

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ON THE COVER Photographer Emily Nathan captures Cris Benton rigging his kite camera before a test run. Make one yourself with his instructions on page 50. The kite shown is a Cody historical reproduction, made by Logo Kites Drachen GmbH of Hamburg, Germany. Available exclusively from Gomberg Kite Productions International, www.gombergkites.com.

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The feral robot dogs are coming to a Superfund site near you.

The Wright brothers made better bicycle seats than airplanes. It’s time to revisit the grooved saddle.

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