Volume 11

Alt.Vehicles

48: Urban Guerrilla Movie House Your own DI Y drive-in. By Mister Jalopy

58: The Little Cart That Couldn’t Is a wind-powered vehicle claim just a bunch of hot air? By Charles Platt

64: Swiveling Balcony Hoist

Take the sting out of walk-up apartments. By Matthew Russell

67: Rolling Solar

From junker to sun-charged car. By Ben Shedd

68: Granny’s Nightmare Chopper Bike Chop an old ladies’ bicycle into something evil. By Brad Graham

73: Swing & Wrong-Way Bikes Trick cycles from Cyclecide. By Paul Spinrad

74: U-G-L-Y Your Bike

To deter thieves, camouflage your bicycle as a piece of crap while keeping it a first-class ride. By Rick Polito

76: Rock the Bike

Social biking with Fossil Fool and the Juice Pedaler. By Paul Spinrad

80: iPod Bike Charger A sidewall dynamo powers both lights and tuneage. By Mark Hoekstra

82: Stokemonkey Makes It Easier An electric motor linked to existing bicycle gears turns any bike into a sell-your-car-already vehicle. By Rick Polito

84: The Year People Learned to Fly Celebrating the 30th anniversary of the flight of the Gossamer Condor. By Ben Shedd

PEDALING THE FRIENDLY SKIES In 1977 Paul MacCready’s Gossamer Condor took flight with a 120-pound cyclist as both the pilot and the engine, marking the first human-powered flight in history.

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ON THE COVER: Photographer Robyn Twomey set up on MAKE Editor-in-Chief Mark Frauenfelder’s lawn to shoot Mister Jalopy’s Urban Guerrilla Movie House. Tooth-decaying snacks were used to bribe the kids to stare at a blank screen for extended periods of time.

Columns

10: Welcome By Gareth Branwyn

15: Make Free Nearly ten years after the invention of Napster there’s more file sharing than ever. By Cory Doctorow

24: Hands On Now that “digital carpentry” has come to exist, how do you make it authentic? By Bruce Sterling

38: Heirloom Technology The Chinese make fuel from coal dust, farm waste, scrap wood, and a bit of the local dirt. By Tim Anderson

44: Making Trouble

Everything I know I learned from two wheels and a frame. By Saul Griffith

92: Personal Fab

A CNC milling machine for less than a grand. By Tom Owad

182: Retrospect

The 1977 Gulf of Alaska Baidarka Expedition. By George Dyson

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