Make, Volume 3: Technology on Your Time (Make: Technology on Your Time) (Paperback)

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Product Description

If you like to tweak, disassemble, re-create, and invent cool new uses for

technology, you'll love "MAKE" our new quarterly publication for the

inquisitive do-it-yourselfer. Our third issue looks at how you can turn your car into a Wi-Fi blasting, computer-controlled, GPS-enabled, biodiesel monster. Key features show how to turn a VCR into a pet feeding robot, how to make a see-through potato cannon, create a remote-controlled haunted house for Holloween, and get you the skinny on cheap welding.

The third edition profiles Ed Storms, now retired, and formerly employed at

the Los Alamos National Laboratories. For more than a decade, Storms has

been working on low-energy nuclear reactions (LENR.) If LENRs exist and can

be harnessed, they will provide an alternative power source. Since they

don't emit chemical pollutants, they may even alleviate global warming.

Visit "MAKE"'s web site: make.oreilly.com.

About the Author

Mark Frauenfelder. Mark is a writer and illustrator living in Los Angeles, and the editor of Make. He is the cofounder of the popular Boing Boing weblog, was an editor at Wired from 1993-1998, and was the founding editor-in-chief of Wired Online. His articles about technology and culture have appeared in Wired, The New York Times Magazine, Popular Science, MIT Technology Review, Playboy, Business 2.0 and The Industry Standard. He wrote and illustrated The Mad Professor for Chronicle Books, a book of science experiments for kids published in the Fall of 2002.

Product Details

• Paperback: 194 pages
• Publisher: O'Reilly Media (July 1, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0596100809
• ISBN-13: 978-0596100803
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.7 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.3 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #58,008 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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28 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars High Quality, March 15, 2005

By	E. Wuehler (Portland, OR) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: MAKE: Technology on Your Time Vol. 1 (Paperback)

While flipping through this "mook" (as it apparently is called), it brought back childhood memories of browsing my Dad's Popular Science (or was it Popular Mechanics?) magazines. I like the smaller, "bookish" form factor as it makes it feel more - well, uhh - like a book. Since this is a magazine, I was curious to see how many ads I was going to have to wade through. I was pleasantly surprised to discover there were hardly any; I hope they keep them to a minimum going forward.

The "how to" articles are very well done, with a great amount of step-by-step information in both visual and written detail. My only problem now is time. Every project looked like so much fun it was disappointing to realize I wouldn't be able to do them all before the next issue would arrive and give me a whole new set of cool projects. =) My personal time management issues aside, Make is high-quality publication, top to bottom.

31 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Super! (almost...), February 16, 2005

By	Uncle Marky (Kings Park, NY USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: MAKE: Technology on Your Time Vol. 1 (Paperback)

What's not to love? The 9"x7" book format is much better than the typical magazine size, all the articles are interesting, and almost no fluff.

My only dislikes: The body type is really small, and some of the sidebars are set even smaller. Us older geeks really need a slightly larger font. I'm not a big fan of body copy set in sans-serif either, but can live with it.

I subscribed, PLEASE ship this in a poly bag. The Post Office can to cruel things to a magazine.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I've been looking for this!, October 26, 2005

By	Velojym "eclectic whatever" (Diminuitive Boulder, AR) - See all my reviews

This review is from: MAKE: Technology on Your Time Vol. 1 (Paperback)

I stay on the lookout for the "Boys" guides, you know, those old books dealing with science and technology (a hundred years old, perhaps, but still quite educational). I've looked into a few more modern magazines, such as Popular Mechanics (good for what it is), Wired (mostly a culture thing, I guess), and 2600 (fine, if my goal was to electronically knock over a Target store or something).
This is what I was after: a 'book' series dealing with hacking together hardware, making stuff work, and making stuff work better.
Now my 'to do' list has grown substantially, with a bunch of things I really hadn't thought of doing!