Volume 10

Home Electronics

58: Electronics Home Workshop Everything you need to get yourself started in hobby electronics. By Charles Platt

62: The Biggest Little Chip

Getting to know the versatile 555 timer. By Charles Platt

67: Roomba Hacks

Take over the world with your own cleaning robot army. By Phillip Torrone and Tod E. Kurt

68: Nice Dice

Make a pair of digital dice. By Charles Platt

72: RoboHouse

How one person turned his house into an automated home that would make George Jetson jealous. By Andrew Turner

76: Propeller Chip

BASIC Stamp’s Chip Gracey puts a new spin on microcontrollers. By Dale Dougherty

Columns

11: Welcome

Seek out ordinary people creating extraordinary projects. By Shawn Connally

13: News From the Future

Get ready for a future in which stuff looks a lot more like software. By Tim O’Reilly

ROBOHOUSE How to set up your home to take care of itself and you.

ON THE COVER: Nine-year-old Sarina Frauenfelder and her dad, Editor-in-Chief Mark Frauenfelder, use a continuity probe to test the wiring of the “Vibrobot,” which uses an unbalanced toy motor to skim across the floor. Photographed for MAKE by Gregg Segal.

15: Make Free

By reading this, you agree to join my campaign to ridicule and vilify idiotic end-user agreements. By Cory Doctorow

24: Hands On

Benvenuto Cellini rejected human limitations to prove his valor. By Bruce Sterling

28: Art Work

Artists are using circuit design as both a functional and an expressive medium. By Douglas Repetto

40: Heirloom Technology Solve multiple global problems at once when you make your own sandals from an old tire. By Tim Anderson

54: Making Trouble

Make it beautiful, make it last, or don’t make it at all. By Saul Griffith

56: Maker’s Corner

Advice and news for MAKE readers. By Dan Woods

178: Retrospect

In the beginning was the CRT. By George Dyson

181: Retrocomputing Antique computers run the world. By Tom Owad

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