Features
36: Spinout
Was building a Soap Box Derby racer my brother’s last best chance at escaping his fate? By Colin Berry
48: Genuine Ingenuity
True stories and authentic experiences at the first annual Maker Faire. By Dale Dougherty
54: MAKE’s Special Section: Backyard Biology Freeze and revive a garden snail, make a meat-eating orchid movie robot, extract your own DNA, create custom fruits and flowers, and more.
Columns
10: Welcome MAKE is crafting a new magazine.
12: Maker’s Corner Almost everything you need to know about MAKE.
13: Tim O’Reilly You are who you make yourself to be.
14: Life Hacks Get more done by doing less. By Merlin Mann and Danny O’Brien
16: Cory Doctorow Encouraging creative destruction.
26: Bruce Sterling A “creative class” of tech geeks and fine artists are jostling on the same page.
40: Heirloom Tech Turn a shopping cart into a wheelchair. By Tim Anderson
46: Saul Griffith Use a head-mounted videocam to document making.
176: Retrocomputing Digital spelunking. By Tom Owad
177: Aha! Puzzle This
Jellybean mix-up, hungry cannioals, and a confused hiker. By Michael H. Pryor
178: Blast from the Past
A portable workbench. By Mister Jalopy
188: George Dyson
Strange Love, or, how they learred to start worrying and love to hate the bomb.
PLANT HACKS “Everyone wants to put their hand on nature,” says Todd Perkins, a flower breeder at Goldsmith Seeds. “It’s primal. And there’s the joy of taking infinite diversity and selecting just those traits you want.” Some of those traits include creating a plant that blooms longer, tastes better, is resistant to disease, or comes in groovy shapes and colors.
PROTO MIT’s Drew Endy follows the path of a fat bumblebee with his index finger. “It’s nothing but a flying, reproducing machine,” he says. “This object should be editable.” Bringing his face inches away from an ant, he says, “Why can’t I just hack this stuff?”
ON THE COVER Florists remove the stamens of lilies because their pollen makes a mess. For the cover shoot, Art Director Kirk von Rohr bought unbloomed lilies with the stamens intact. He immersed the stems in warm water and they blossomed in an hour. Von Rohr says pollen scattered everywhere: “My arms were stained yellow.” Photograph by Howard Cao
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