Synopses & Reviews
Automate your world with remote control in MAKE: Volume 22. From pet care to power outlets, from toys to telepresence, we'll show you how to add a joystick, push-button, twist-know, or timer to just about anything.
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.
Synopsis
MAKE blasts into orbit and beyond with our Space Exploration issue. DIY satellites! Radio telescopy! Sub-orbital rocketry! Renegade NASA hackers! Bouncing signals off the moon! Of course, as usual, we've got a full payload of other cool DIY projects to keep you busy while your computer joins in the search for signs of extraterrestrial intelligence.
About the Author
Mark Frauenfelder is a writer and illustrator living in Los Angeles, and the editor of MAKE. He is the cofounder of the popular Boing Boing weblog and was an editor at Wired from 1993-1998.