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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
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
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