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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