Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 18 [Paperback]

Mark Frauenfelder Ed. (Editor)

Book Description

Series: Make: Technology on Your Time | Publication Date: May 13, 2009

Volume 18 of MAKE Magazine features projects on how to make food and energy, using the untapped resources around the house, yard, and community. This DIY Energy issue shows readers how to measure their energy use and maximize their efficiency, with projects such as making a topographical map of their property, starting an energy garden, making an embedded irrigation system, using chickens to reduce household inputs, and more.

MAKE continues to be a leader in the tech DIY movement due to its uncanny instinct to engage the curiosity, vitality, and passion of the growing community of Makers -- DIY enthusiasts, hobbyist engineers/designers, and others who like to tweak, disassemble, recreate, and invent cool new uses for technology in amazing projects they undertake in their backyards, basements, and garages.

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About the Author

Mark Frauenfelder is a writer and illustrator living in Los Angeles, and the editor of MAKE. He is the cofounder of the popular Boing Boing weblog and was an editor at Wired from 1993-1998.

Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Make; 1 edition (May 13, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 059615769X
• ISBN-13: 978-0596157692
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.6 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,406,480 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)