Volume 07

Maker

17: 1+ 2+3: Penny Battery Light an LED with coins and salt water. By Matthew Ruschmann

18: Made on Earth

Snapshots from the world of backyard technology.

28: Maker Profile: Mark Pauline For three decades, SRL has been orchestrating the most dangerous theater on Earth. By David Pescovitz

42: Proto: Drew Endy

For a safer world, this MI T professor wants to engineer life from scratch. By Bob Parks

49: Digicomp Redux

Remaking a toy computer from the 1960s. By Tim Walker

51: 1+ 2+3: Magnetic Switches Activate circuits without touching them. By Cy Tymony

52: Arduino Fever

The tale of a cute blue microcontroller and the community that loves it. By Daniel Jolliffe

152: Maker Trips

Incredible machines at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. By Michael Shapiro

154: Howtoons

Water droplet lens with special bottle-cap twist focus. By Saul Griffith, Nick Dragotta, and Joost Bonsen

MAKER PROFILE “The real message of machines isn’t that they’re helpful workmates,” says Survival Research Labs’ Mark Pauline. “Like any extension of the human psyche, machines are scary things. When you take the scary human psyche and magnify it hundreds or thousands of times with technology, it’s really nightmarish.”

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111: Outdoors

121: Home

127: Computers

133: Mobile

141: Imaging

147: Music

149: Circuits

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156: MakeShift: Trapped in a Pit The creator of MacGyver challenges you to save a man stuck in a fissure filled with toxic gas. By Lee D. Zlotoff

166: Toolbox

The best tools, software, gadgets, books, magazines, and websites.

180: Warning Labels

Kid safety labels we’d like to see. By Dale Dougherty

182: Reader Input

Where makers tell their tales.

186: Maker’s Calendar Our favorite events from around the world. By William Gurstelle

192: Homebrew

My Robosapien in a can. By Dave Prochnow

Vol. 07, August 2006. MAKE (ISSN 1556-2336) is published quarterly by O’Reilly Media, Inc. in the months of February, May, August, and November. O’Reilly Media is located at 1005 Gravenstein Hwy. North, Sebastopol, CA 95472, (707) 827-7000. SUBSCRIPTIONS: Send all subscription requests to MAKE, P.O. Box 17046, North Hollywood, CA 91615-9588 or subscribe online at makezine.com/offer or via phone at (866) 289-8847 (U.S. and Canada), all other countries call (818) 487-2037. Subscriptions are available for $34.95 for 1 year ( 4 quarterly issues) in the United States; in Canada: $39.95 USD; all other countries: $49.95 USD. Application to Mail at Periodicals Postage Rates is Pending at Sebastopol, CA, and at additional mailing offices. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to MAKE, P.O. Box 17046, North Hollywood, CA 91615-9588.

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