Volume 20

50: Productive Plastic Playthings

A look back at 1960s maker toys. By Bob Knetzger

56: Wooden Mini Yacht

Model boat sails across pools and ponds. By Thomas Martin

59: Kid-Friendly Projects

Crowd-pleasers from the MAKE vault. By Laura Cochrane

60: Model Rocket Mega-Launcher Make the scout rocket derby a blast. By Douglas Desrochers

65: The UnaBox

Keyless, secret, wooden compartment. By Claudio Bernardini

68: The Lost Art of Lashing

Build rafts and towers without nails. By Gever Tulley

74: The Weight-Powered Vehicle (WPV)

How far can a car go on 1 foot-pound of energy?

By Richard B. Graeber

76: Teachers’ Pet Projects

Favorite classroom projects. By Laura Cochrane

80: Marble Adding Machine

Mechanical binary calculator. By Matthias Wandel

86: Getting Back to Nuts and Bolts Pixar actor John Ratzenberger wants every kid to be a maker. By Dale Dougherty

SMELL THE PLASTIC: Toys of the 1960s, like the Vac-U-Form, put production in the hands of kids.

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ON THE COVER: Adam Savage, sporting his hacked Apollo space suit, photographed by Cody Pickens. Background illustrated by Adam Koford. Read an in-depth interview with Savage on page 32, and build the Hydrogen-Oxygen Bottle Rocket on page 90.

Columns

11: Welcome: Watch, Learn, Do How I became a maker. By Adam Savage

12: Reader Input

Young makers, a melted museum, and a CRAF Ter’s lament.

13: Learn by Making

Creating opportunities for kids to make. By Dale Dougherty

14: Make Free: Shortcut to Omniscience Wikipedia’s secret weapon. By Cory Doctorow

16: Making Trouble: Baby Hacking

Everything in your kids’ world is broken. By Saul Griffith

27: Tales from the MAKE: Blog

The best projects and videos from Make: Online.

28: Country Scientist

Doing science with a digital scanner. By Forrest M. Mims III

154: MakeShift: Property Condemned

An urban spelunking misadventure. By Lee D. Zlotoff

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