CONTRIBUTORS
Ben Krasnow (My Scanning Electron
Microscope) works on Top Secret
projects at Valve Corporation. For his
previous day job, he built computer
peripherals for MRI machines. His
company, Mag Design and Engineering,
sold these devices directly to researchers at academic institutions who use
them to publish scientific papers in
peer-reviewed journals. After work, he
spends time on many different types
of projects that usually involve circuit
design, machining, material selection,
and general fabrication/hacking. His
favorite place to be is his home workshop. He’s also writing a book that
documents his favorite projects.
Sean Bonner (Drive-By Science) has
“never been a fan of asking for permission to do anything, so pretty much every
project has resulted from just doing it.
To mixed results.” He lives in Los Angeles
but spends “a heck of a lot of time in
Tokyo,” has a 2-year-old son named
Ripley, is happily married to Tara Brown,
has a cat and a dog, and loves almond
milk lattes and wings from Veggie Grill.
He’s currently working on a bunch of
photo projects, a book about getting rid
of personal possessions, a music project
exploring the lost thrill of discovery, perfecting a banana-coconut-kale smoothie
recipe, and trying to learn how to use a
straight razor without killing himself.
Rick Schertle (Rocket Glider) has
taught middle school language arts
and history for the past 19 years and is
trying to practice what he teaches by
writing for MAKE. Along with his wife and
young son and daughter, he road-tripped
across Europe and North Africa, couch
surfing along the way. Following his interest in all things that fly, his next project
is building the flying Towel from the last
issue of MAKE. Time rich but cash poor,
Rick dreams about his next ultra-budget
overseas sabbatical with his family.
Dean Segovis (Fetch-O-Matic) is a self-taught hardware hacker/problem solver/
inventor. He built his first crystal radio
in 1973 at the age of 13. It didn’t work
because he used a real cat’s whisker!
(Thanks Kitty!) He loves to relax by taking whatever is at hand and seeing how
he can repurpose it. Dean is a tinkering/
inventing type at heart and is currently
working on a proprietary leveling device
that he’s hoping to take to market. He
makes a living as a European auto technician, where he gets to troubleshoot
and problem-solve every day. He lives in
North Carolina in a nice, small Southern
town with his two dogs, three cats, and
three chickens!
Lina Nilsson (DIY Lab Equipment) is a
biomedical engineer at the University of
California, Berkeley. Previously, she has
worked at a fishery in Norway and on
a vineyard in Germany. She can thus not
only purify proteins, but also both clean
salmon and remove weeds at alarming
speeds. Lina believes in the power of
open spaces: she ski mountaineers the
Sierras and volunteers as a backpacking
guide in Alaska. She also firmly believes
in the power of open science: academic
science can and should be fundamentally transformed by adopting citizen
science approaches of openness, crowd
sourcing, and flexibility.
Nick Dragotta (Howtoons) is proud to
have been in MAKE since Volume 01!
He lives in Alameda, Calif., with his wife
and fellow Howtoons designer, Ingrid,
their son Leo, and a cat named Tiger.
While being a comic book artist has its
frustrations (the first Howtoons book
was shelved in Adult Science at a major
bookstore chain because it was “too
dangerous”), he’s really excited about
the projects he’s working on: a Howtoons
energy literacy book, Howtoons for
mobile devices, and the first Howtoons
summer camp in Madison, Wis. What
does he do for fun? “I get to make
comics for a living, but the family bike
rides might just take the cake,” he says.
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