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Bend It Like Bach from MAKE: 15: Music
Tim Kaiser's fabulously weird world of music. by Karen K. Hansen

Solar-Powered Studio from MAKE: 15: Music
Bruce Baldwin's DIY desert dream. by Charles Platt

My Daughter's DNA from MAKE: 15: Music
One father's search for the scientific answers that no one seemed to have. by Hugh Young Rienhoff, Jr.

Secret of Evermor from MAKE: 15: Music
Flight of fancy on a monumental scale. by Buzz Moran

VoIPing the iPod Touch from MAKE: 15: Music
How makers gave you the feature that Apple held back.
 by Erica Sadun

Go-Karts Race to College from MAKE: 15: Music
Winner gets a $10,000 college scholarship. Loser goes home. by Nate Bell

Breezing Through Oshkosh from MAKE: 15: Music
A maker’s look at the Experimental Aircraft Association’s AirVenture show. by William Gurstelle

Darkside Rocketeer from MAKE: 13: Magic
Jack Parsons, the space pioneer history likes to forget. by Gareth Branwyn

Mathemagician from MAKE: 12: Upload
At 92, philosopher Martin Gardner is still exploring the perplexities of math, science, mystery, and magic. by Donald E. Simanek

Spirits Guy from MAKE: 11: Alt Vehicles
How Lance Winters went from basement moonshiner to celebrity vodka distiller. by Benjamin Tice Smith

Happy Blastoff from MAKE: 10: Home Electronics
Smoke, sound, and fury at the Large Dangerous Rocket Ship launchpad. by William Gurstelle

Digi-Comp Redux from MAKE: 07: Backyard Biology
A maker in the middle recreates a kit classic. by Tim Walker

Arduino Fever from MAKE: 07: Backyard Biology
The tale of a cute, blue microcontroller that fits nicely in the palm of your hand, and the expanding community of developers who love and support it. by Daniel Jollife

Mark Pauline's Machine Mayhem from MAKE: 07: Backyard Biology
For nearly three decades, Survival Research Laboratories has redirected the technology of industry, science, and the military to create the most dangerous theater on Earth. by David Pescovitz

Tech-Nomading From Shore to Ship from MAKE: 06: Robots
Twenty-three years ago, Steven Roberts went on a bike trip and never returned. by Howard Wen

Sky Cutters from MAKE: 06: Robots
Pulling the strings at the Berkeley Kite Festival. by Arwen O'Reilly Griffith

Boiler Room from MAKE: 06: Robots
A visit to the annual Yankee Steam-Up. by Brian Jepson

Distributist Technologies from MAKE: 06: Robots
At last, Tolkien meets capitalism. by Tom Owad

You Are the Platform from MAKE: 06: Robots
How hardware hackers are remaking their bodies. by Quinn Norton

Woody's World from MAKE: 05: Science, Weather, and Outdoors
A Q&A with the inventor of a pirate-scaring noisemaker, a helicopter for every garage, and a way to hack gravity itself. by William Lidwell

Art in Living from MAKE: 05: Science, Weather, and Outdoors
N55, a conceptual group from Denmark, creates functional art for living, breathing, and growing. by Bruce Stewart

It Came From My Garage from MAKE: 05: Science, Weather, and Outdoors
Model kit makers bring B-movie monsters to your home. by Gareth Branwyn

Re-Booting Art from MAKE: 05: Science, Weather, and Outdoors
A new art venue for the robotic age. by Douglas Repetto

Dean Kamen: The Dean of Engineering from MAKE: 04: Music and Kits for the Holidays
Wasting time is an unspeakable crime, says Segway inventor Dean Kamen. by William Lidwell

How to Make a Film, Without Money, While Being Bombed from MAKE: 04: Music and Kits for the Holidays
Shooting a documentary in Belgrade is risky business. by Jasmina Tesanovic

Maximoog from MAKE: 04: Music and Kits for the Holidays
A tribute to Bob Moog, the man who gave us so many good vibrations. by Jimmy Guterman

Let The X-Games Begin from MAKE: 04: Music and Kits for the Holidays
If you've ever wanted to try making a video game, here's your chance. by Alex Handy

The World's Biggest MP3 Player from MAKE: 04: Music and Kits for the Holidays
Filling a retro hi-fi with an MP3 ripping and playback system. by Mister Jalopy

Film Jockey from MAKE: 04: Music and Kits for the Holidays
Julie Meitz uses old film projectors to create collages of light and color. by Ross Orr

A Fusion Reactor for the Rest of Us from MAKE: 03: Cars and Halloween
Ed Storms is leading the effort to take cold fusion off the back burner by moving it into the garage. by Charles Platt

Ooz and Oz from MAKE: 02: Home Entertainment
Hacking robot toys is all in a day's work for Natalie Jeremijenko. Dale Dougherty trails the UCSD professor for a day of fun at the races, transforming toy robotic dogs into environmental avengers. by Dale Dougherty

Welcome to the Fab Lab from MAKE: 01: Make Premiere
Neil Gershenfeld shows us that personal fabrication can be fabulous. The teacher of MIT's course "How to Make (Almost) Anything" gives us a tour of the Boston fab lab, one of a growing network of field labs all over the world. by D.C. Denison

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