On to Year Two: A look back on our exciting first year. By Dale Dougherty and Mark Frauenfelder
News from the Future: For everything that is gained, something is lost.
14: Life Hacks: Smarter To-Do Lists Planning your projects one bite-sized piece at a time. By Merlin Mann and Danny O’Brien
16: Cory Doctorow A copyright-controlled museum is a crime against humankind.
Amazing things your neighbors build in their basements.
Our design columnist makes a Calder-inspired mobile out of paper plates.
28: Maker: Woody Norris A Q&A with the inventor of a pirate-scaring noisemaker, a helicopter for every garage, and a way to hack gravity itself. By William Lidwell
N55, a conceptual group from Denmark, creates functional art for living, breathing, and growing. By Bruce Stewart
Intel researcher Eric Paulos makes things that give their own-
ers a new way of understanding their daily lives. By David Pescovitz
Model kit makers bring B-movie monsters to your home.
By Gareth Branwyn
VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE POOL Students from universities and trade schools in the U.S., Canada, and India entered the 8th International Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Competition. At stake was $20,000 in prize money, which considering the cost and time to create a submarine, isn’t the motivating factor. It’s all about the bragging rights.
INTEL’S IN-HOUSE MAKER Eric Paulos is a computer scientist at Intel Research Berkeley, a corporate “lablet” in the penthouse of a downtown office building where a dozen or so scientists explore the edges of computing and networking technology. For Paulos, every city is an ideal laboratory to test what he calls “objects of wonderment.”
ArtBots: The Robot Talent Show is a hands-on, low-budget annual exhibition. By Douglas Repetto
MAKE looks at unusual slide rules from decades past.
By Robert Luhn
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