What’s Make Magazine? It’s Popular Mechanics for indy geeksters, and leaves Wired Magazine looking like pretty uninspired. Don’t take that to mean it’s self important, or a field guide to engineering. It’s seriously fun… the kind of study that made you enjoy going to biology class dissections, rocket science for kids (i.e. blowing stuff up with a smile on your face), or Lego’s and motorized erector sets that could make you a sandwich. Essentially growns up making fun things that are seriously smart, artful and sometimes silly.
How so? Well how’s a working chandelier of gummy bears, a self-cooling portable AC unit for Burning Man, or a Death Star subwoofer hit you?
Phil Torrone, Make Magazine Contributor and Limor Fried formerly of MIT Media Labs and current engineer, artist and hacker for Eyebeam Technology & Research Center shared some outlandish stuff to bring the MIT kid out in all of us. Though fringe in its “art” and practice, the success of Make and it’s contributors certainly demonstrates that open sourced collaboration, CGM and technical arts are more than a passing fad.
Check out Maker Fair when it’s in Austin this fall. Hear more about Make and the Fair at Joel’s podcast:
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