Volume 15

Maker

18: Made on Earth

Snapshots from the world of backyard technology.

32: Bend It Like Bach

Tim Kaiser’s fabulously weird world of music.

By Karen K. Hansen

37: Solar-Powered Studio

Bruce Baldwin’s DI Y desert dream. By Charles Platt

40: My Daughter’s DNA

One father’s search for the scientific answers that no one seemed to have. By Hugh Young Rienhoff Jr.

44: Secret of Evermor

A flight of fancy on a monumental scale. By Buzz Moran

46: VoIPing the iPod Touch How makers gave you the feature that Apple held back. By Erica Sadun

48: Go-Karts Race to College

Winner gets a $10,000 college scholarship. Loser goes home. By Nate Bell

50: Breezing Through Oshkosh A maker’s look at the Experimental Aircraft Association’s AirVenture show. By William Gurstelle

93: Upload: Exquisite Crops Collaborative art for the artistically challenged. By Charles Platt

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HELL BENT: Tim Kaiser bends circuits and minds with his homemade instruments.

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137 143: Home

Pinewood racer wind tunnel, keyless apartment entry.

149: Pranks Evil mouse prank.

137: Workshop

Arms of assistance, hole 151: Imaging pattern drilling, phone 2-mile camera remote, salvage. DSLR time-lapse trigger,

panning time-lapse rig, IR-sensing wildlife camera.

96: Upload: Make Your PC (Seem) Intelligent Can your computer pass the Turing test? By Charles Platt

98: Upload: Make Yourself Invisible

Become an anonymous online identity. By Publius

136: 1+ 2+3: Two-Cent Wobbler

A fun spinning toy made from coins. By George W. Hart

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

166: Toys, Tricks, and Teasers

The penetrating magnets illusion. By Donald E. Simanek

168: Heirloom Technology

Handy tricks from Guatemala. By Tim Anderson

170: Retrospect

Can you have your house and spend it too? By George Dyson

172: Toolbox

The best tools, software, publications, and websites.

180: Aha! Puzzle This

Festival lineup and Russian roulette. By Michael H. Pryor

182: Make Money

Live mousetrap made from pennies. By Tom Parker

184: Howtoons: One-Man March’n Band By Saul Griffith and Nick Dragotta

192: Homebrew

My laser tag system. By Jim Robertson