Volume 03

7: Welcome

Editor Dale Dougherty says manufacturers should get wise and create maker-friendly devices.

10: Cory Doctorow

Why copy restriction enables nothing but user aggravation.

12: Life Hacks: Sleep

Reboot your circadian rhythm to get more done. By Merlin Mann and Danny O’Brien

15: Tim O’Reilly

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

16: Made on Earth

Amazing things your neighbors have made in the backyard: motorized shopping carts, solar death ray, and more.

24: Bruce Sterling

Makers of virtual goods earn real cash in Second Life.

25: Maker: Ed Storms Ed Storms is leading the effort to take cold fusion off the back burner by moving it into the garage. By Charles Platt

Do-It-Yourself Cold Fusion: A former Los Alamos scientist is getting results in his home lab that no one else expected.

Go, Cart: Putting a
gasoline engine in
a shopping cart.

ON THE COVER Saul Griffith restored a 1960s-era Dune Buggy, outfitting it with a jack for an iPod. When he parks his buggy, he simply unplugs the iPod, leaving nothing to steal. Photograph by Thayer Gowdy.

36: Heirloom Technology Swamp Tech: Living free in the Florida Everglades.

By Tim Anderson

40: Let There Be Speech Can you make a $200 computer for blind kids? By Fernando Botelho

42: 1+2+3: Blimp

Make a jet-propelled blimp for a buck. By John Perez

43: Bots Brewed Here

Inside the HomeBrew Robotics Club. By Quinn Norton

44: Ultimate Tools

The first things we’ll buy when we win the lottery. By Saul Griffith

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