Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 20 |  | Author: Mark Frauenfelder Ed.
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
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Get ready for the coolest issue of MAKE. Our special kids issue is filled with exciting and fun projects to make your weekend or science fair a blast. Hydrogen rockets, catapults, electric animals, chemical batteries, flying bird automatons, and more await you in the pages of MAKE: Volume 20!
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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More good stuff December 11, 2009
A. J. Kerslake (Auckland, New Zealand)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I've gotten every issue of make so far, and this one is just as good as the others.
The editorials about the decline of basic tech skills helped clarify my unorganized thoughts on the decline of the lower orders of tech. We are raising a generation of theorists who lack the hands on tinkering skills needed to test their own theories, and discover new ones.
The rubber band powered toy car launcher is such a great project for parents and kids to try together.
*WARNING: general complaint follows*
My only gripe about Make is the emphasis on "higher" level skills i.e. higher than I have. Soldering is okay, working from plans is okay, but I can't program to save myself, and making my own circuit boards is beyond me. Arduino programming? Out of my league, for now.
I would like to see more of the "simpler" projects in each issue, things that don't need programming, custom boards, etc. I like those, and can do them.
That said, it does push me to get the extra skills needed to make the really cool stuff, which I need and like. But before I get those skills it's a bit annoying.
I'm not saying that that is all there is in the mag, but more of the simpler introductory stuff wouldn't go amiss.
All in all, I love it.
Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 20 January 14, 2010
Sacramento Book Review (Sacramento, CA)
//Make// is a quarterly magazine that focuses on serious Do-It-Yourself projects and targets DIYers, builders, crafters, and other creative sorts. The Winter 2009 issue's main feature is an interview with Adam Savage of the Discovery Channel's Mythbusters. This issue, among other projects, features a hydrogen-oxygen bottle rocket, an Autophenakistoscope, a marble adding machine, and so much more. All of these projects are accompanied with detailed instruction and large full color photos to guide even the most building illiterate through all the projects in this //Make//. I especially enjoyed the lunch box laser show project, which is now my DIY high tech project for 2010. As always my sole complaint with this Winter 2009-10 issue of //Make//, and all issues really, is how daunting many of the projects are! The intimidation factor for this magazine is pretty high, despite all the help the magazine and its website offer. For the uninitiated much of //Make// is opaque, esoteric, and indecipherable. The persistent reader, prepared to step out of their comfort zone, will learn much from //Make// Volume 20.
Reviewed by Jonathon Howard
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