Contributors

Lee Zlotoff (MakeShift), screenwriter for the original MacGyver series, has been making things since he realized both his hands were attached to the same brain. “No question, the inspiration for the MacGyver character came from cellar sojourns with my father, who could pretty much make anything work.” He lives on a hill in Topanga, and when he isn’t surfing or designing furniture and fountains, he makes television and film for Hollywood. Most recently he’s launched his own media production outfit, Custom Image Concepts. “The muse said it was time to rock the boat. Who am I to argue?”

Danny O’Brien (Life Hacks) lives in San Francisco with his wife and daughter. By day, he fights crime at the Electronic Frontier Foundation as its activism coordinator. By night, he also fights crime, but only by neglecting to get around to it.

Matthew Russell (Lego Soccer project) is a Mac zealot, a skydiver, and a Krispy Kreme addict (he once ate 26 in one sitting). He graduated from the Air Force Academy in 2003, is a computer scientist by trade, and has 450 skydiving jumps under his belt. An inhabitant of the DC Metro area, he’s a frequent contributor to O’Reilly’s Mac DevCenter and likes to dabble with open source software for Mac/Linux. He has two pet ferrets, loves a freshly mixed black and tan from the tap, and always has too many irons in the fire.

Howard Wen (Maker profile) is obsessed with the weather — fretting over how hot it is or how cold it is. That’s because he’s from Dallas, where it’s not unusual for the temperatures to change as fast as it takes you to read this paragraph. For his profile on tech-nomad pioneer Steven Roberts, Howard braced himself for the dreary gray skies and chilly rain of the Seattle winter — but the weather was sunny and warm when he visited. So he fretted about how hot it was.

Roy Doty (Aha! illustration) has been a cartoonist since the fourth grade. A degree in fine arts and a stint in the U.S. Army during WWII didn’t distract him, and he still draws nonstop. Named Illustrator of the Year six times by the National Cartoonists Society, he has illustrated 176 books ( 29 of which he wrote), and his drawings have been published in so many magazines that the list would fill this entire page. His “Wordless Workshop” for The Family Handyman is in its 50th year. His favorite big lie? “That I’m 45 years old.” His proudest achievement? “That I have never had a job for a single day in my life.”

Contributing Writers:

Tim Anderson, Joost Bonsen, Gareth Branwyn, Mark R. Brown, Shawn Carlson, Bill Coderre, Travis J.I. Corcoran, Larry Cotton, Cory Doctorow, Nick Dragotta, George Dyson, Dan Gonsiorowski, Graffiti Research Lab, Joe Grand, Saul Griffith, William Gurstelle, Tom Igoe, Brian Jepson, Steve Johnson, Haje Jan Kamps, Peter Kirn, Mike Kuniavsky, William Lidwell, Matt Lind, Greg Lipscomb, Merlin Mann, Mister Jalopy, Annalee Newitz, Quinn Norton, Danny O’Brien, Tim O’Reilly, Ross Orr, Tom Owad, Dave Prochnow, Michael H. Pryor, Joel Raedeke, Michael Rosenblatt, Tyler Rourke, Matthew Russell, Bob Scott, Liam Staskawicz, Bruce Sterling, Damien Stolarz, Dan Strunk, Robert Bruce Thompson, Howard Wen, David Williams, Tom Zimmerman, Lee D. Zlotoff

Contributing Artists:

Douglas Adesko, Jake Appelbaum, Nathan Arnold, Kevin Bain, Scott Beale, Ricardo Blanc, Roy Doty, Nick Dragotta, eboy, Mike Fields, John Granen, Alex Handy, Dustin Amory Hostetler, Harold R. Ilano, Timmy Kucynda, Chris Leschinsky, Tim Lillis, Christopher Lucas, Dave McMahon, Jim Mullins, Visa Parviainen, Joe Reinhardt, Seth Schoen, Damien Scogin, Shawn Sinyork, James Sooy, Robin Tafel, Travis Thatcher, Jay Townsend, Susan Williams

Interns:

Adrienne Foreman (web)

Jake McKenzie (engr.)