Spencer and I went to the Ace Hardware store
¼ mile from O’Reilly in Sebastopol to get the parts for the marshmallow gun. When we got to the counter, the clerk not only reads MAKE but had gotten the second issue before me.
There are now a lot of marshmallows scattered around the neighborhood ... and we only used half of one bag. What a wonder, really, that marshmallows were on sale: ten bags for $10. I restrained myself, and bought five bags. less knifelike, then fold the entire piece into the
I also made a compressed air “tank” out of the shape of a canoe. We’d flatten the corrugations out valve from an old bike tube and some PVC pipe and of the front and rear and nail the prow and stern to fittings, then hooked it up to a solenoid valve, but 2x4 uprights. The seats were two additional 2x4s it isn’t really ready for prime time. It does make an nailed across the top. impressive sound, and shoots pretty far, but the To plug leaks and nail holes, we used tar that we “trigger” mechanism right now is to touch a bare pried up from asphalt roadways (the sun’s heat wire from a 24-volt transformer to a tab on a sole- used to make tar ooze out toward the shoulders). noid valve ... hardly elegant. :-) And we’d fashion paddles out of discarded 1x6s.
— Rich Gibson I love your magazine, but please tell your art direc-
tor not to run black type over dark color blocks, like
I wanted to comment on the blessed lack of brown and blue. Impossible to read. advertisements in MAKE. By my count, there are — Mike Lamm only 8 pages of ads among 192 pages in the premiere issue. That’s a signal-to-noise ratio of 24:1. Yo just wanted to drop a line & say SICK maga-Phenomenal! You keep those pesky over-thick ads zine!! I read about it in Wired & picked up a copy today. to a minimum, there are only a couple of those busi- I put it down just to hit up the site & subscribe. Now ness reply cards, and you don’t interrupt articles (maybe it’s cuz I’m a Maxim reader) I feel like I with ads — you put ’em between the articles where deserve something more — a gift for taking advan-they belong. I truly believe that people will pay for tage of this great offer ... I’d say maybe send me that quality, just as they will pay for commercial- some glowsticks or somethin’, but Bunnie seems to free cable and radio stations. be taking care of that for me. So never mind a gift.
Thanks again, and keep up the good work. Long Oh yeah, propz on the recycled paper too.… live MAKE!! — Basefiend
— Dan Wiley
LOVE THE MAGAZINE ... especially the second
Dunno whether you’re into low-tech “makes,” one with the R2SRs. I was wondering if you guys
but our gang of urchins in Texas used to make could do one on building your own microphone
canoes out of roofing tin. Fun, easy, and, for us, free. arm? It would go great with the podcasting. Thanks
We’d pick up discarded corrugated roofing tin, for your time. Keep up the GREAT work!
fold over and crimp the long edges to make them — Bob
Vol. 03, August 2005. MAKE (ISSN 1556-2336) is published quarterly by O’Reilly Media, Inc. in the months of February, May, August and November. O’Reilly Media is located at 1005 Gravenstein H wy North, Sebastopol, CA 95472, (707) 827-7000. SUBSCRIPTIONS: Send all subscription requests to MAKE, P.O. Box 17046, North Holly wood, CA 91615-9588 or subscribe online at makezine.com/offer or via phone at 866-289-8847 (U.S. and Canada), all other countries call (818) 487-2037. Subscriptions are available for $34.95 for 1 year (4 quarterly issues) in the U.S. Canada: $39.95 USD; all other countries: $49.95 USD. Application to Mail at Periodicals Postage Rates is Pending at Sebastopol, CA and at additional mailing offices. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to MAKE, P.O. Box 17046, North Holly wood, CA 91615-9588.
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