Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 05

by Mark Frauenfelder

If you like to tweak, disassemble, re-create, and invent cool new uses for technology, you'll love MAKE our quarterly publication for the inquisitive do-it-yourselfer.

Every issue is packed with projects to help you make the most of all the technology in your life. Everything from home entertainment systems, to laptops, to a host of PDAs is fair game. If there's a way to hack it, tweak it, bend it, or remix it, you will find out about it...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0596523688
• ISBN13: 9780596523688
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: Make Community, LLC
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.6" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

Good for kids and adults alike.

Make Magazine and their website is the ground floor entrance to an ever-growing tower of practical solutions to problems of various levels of complexity. For a parent and child, every issue has projects and activities that will foster creative thinking, problem solving, and bring families closer together at a time when TV and video games tend to generate zoned out indifference to one another. Make is a modern resurgance of the DIY culture which spawned such bits of Americana ranging from the Soapbox racer to computers built in a garage. My example: From an article that explains how to spend $6 building your own "steadycam" that would likely cost you hundreds, if not thousands, when purchased off the shelf. I adapted the design to handle one, two, or four cameras for stereoscopic projects as well as hold my Tablet PC which acts as a voice activated remote control.