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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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