Volume 12

UPLOAD

49: Opening the Door to Digital Arts and Crafts By Charles Platt

50: Infrared Photography

Reveal a world invisible to the naked eye. By Richard Kadrey

53: Self-Publishing

Innovative options enable you to publish your own text and pictures. By Kevin Kelly

56: Spectrum Shifting

Transform a landscape and create dramatic photographic effects. By Charles Platt

58: Greenscreen How-To

Special video effects are available to anyone with a cheap camcorder and about $25 of software. Greenscreen is the most powerful of these. By Bill Barminski

61: Quick Bits

Tips and tools for digital diversions. By Charles Platt and Mark Frauenfelder

64: The Family Photo Archive Use simple, powerful tools to rescue your photos from stored obscurity and turn them into a DVD slide show. By Brian O’Heir

70: Cellular Automata Design Patterns Autonomous software bots can create complex digital patterns. By Rudy Rucker

74: Remake Your Own Hollywood Movie Dissatisfied with the director’s cut? Direct it yourself! By Richard Kadrey

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ON THE COVER: MAKE engineering intern Matthew Dalton wrangled the Blubber Bots near San Francisco’s Bay Bridge, while photographer Doug Adesko captured the autonomous blimps in flight.

Columns

11: Welcome

Spare parts are essential. By Mark Frauenfelder

24: Make Free

The great, perverse joy of steampunk. By Cory Doctorow

30: Hands On

Belgrade’s gypsy houseboats. By Bruce Sterling

45: Maker’s Corner

Tips and news for MAKE readers. By Dan Woods

46: Art Work

How low can you go? By Douglas Repetto

48: Personal Fab

The itch to etch. By Tom Owad

78: Making Trouble

The importance of summer internships. By Saul Griffith

152: Heirloom Tech

Cuttin’ down a tree. By Tim Anderson

176: Retrospect

Nuclear explosion-powered rocketry. By George Dyson

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