READER INPUT
Where makers tell their tales and offer
praise, brickbats, and swell ideas.
The MAKE blog is the only site I check 3-5 times
a day and actually enjoy.
MAKE made me realize that I’m not just someone
with the hacker mindset — I’m someone who wants
to create things myself. I never had an interest in
crocheting, but the fact that I want to make a tux
scarf makes me realize that things are just better
when you make them yourself. —Troy Fletcher
I saw MAKE this morning. I subscribed immediately after seeing the VCR cat feeder in Vol. 3.
I proceeded to check out the site, and haven’t done
a lick of web work since.
In fact, I will probably eat a large amount of chemical enhancements, shave my head, and devote my
existence to building things from MAKE and/or
coming up with at least one project to submit.
Mister Jalopy,
A haiku to express my newfound obsession
with MAKE:
You can’t imagine how happy (and a bit disappointed)
Client site is down,
I am owned by the makezine.
Where’s my flamethrower?
I was to find your site ... especially the LP ripping
Apple/iPod 1960s radio. As you can see [from the
photo], I thought I was pretty smarty pants when I built a
networked MP3 Touchscreen Jukebox out of a 1940 RCA
chassis that I bought for Can$40 ... but yours blows mine
—Benjamin Jones completely out of the water. ;-)
I wanted to say how much I enjoy your site and attitude
I’ve been subscribing to MAKE since Vol. 2. As toward the garage life and taking pleasure in cleaning,
you can imagine, my subscription renewal is coming restoring, and recycling items that most folks would
due. I was considering letting my subscription lapse, throw out! I read your article on welding in MAKE maga- zine, and I have to say it was well done. I am actually
but Vol. 4 changed my mind. I think it was your finishing my Arc welding class as we speak, so I am really
first Really Good issue. Why? Because it finally had looking forward to buying my first welder and getting set
articles and projects I’m interested in. up ... I have been more of a woodworker up to now!
I liked the projects on music bending, high-speed Anyways. I am now a convert to your site and want you to
photography, turning a cup into a speaker, program- keep up the great work ... if ever you want a guest gadge-
ming microcontrollers (though I don’t understand teer from the Great White North, let me know. I would be very happy to oblige. —Patrice Collin
everyone’s fascination with the PIC; in my opinion
the AVR chip is just as inexpensive and has a much
more orthogonal [i.e. more consistent] instruction
set), and the article about Dean Kamen. My personal interest is in electronic projects and robotics. I owe you a debt of gratitude. Your magazine
Taking apart existing products and repurposing saved Christmas. I was a Grinch beyond anything
them is cool. Theodore Geisel could have imagined. I hated
Your recent online list of $100-and-under gift Christmas; I was tired of the rampant consumerism
ideas for a maker was spot-on. Loved it. and sterilized joy that comes with only giving DVDs
Can we see more articles about embedded pro- and video games to friends and family. But thanks
cessors and Linux devices? to you, Christmas is fun again. After finally getting
—Barry Brown my subscription to MAKE and then getting all the
