Product Description
If you like to tweak, disassemble, recreate, and invent cool new uses for technology, you'll love MAKE, our project-based quarterly for the inquisitive do-it-yourselfer.
Get ready to play when MAKE Volume 08, our "Toys and Games" issue, hits the stands. You'll learn how to build a wind-up bird that really flies, how to restore an old pinball machine, and learn the secret history of the world's best-selling computer game from Myst's co-creator. You'll also meet a well-known toy inventor and learn how to make molds and casts with MythBusters star Adam Savage.
About the Author
Mark Frauenfelder, editor-in-chief of Make magazine, is a writer and illustrator living in Los Angeles. 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.