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  • Hardcover: 183 pages
  • Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.; illustrated edition edition (7 Dec 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0596101880
  • ISBN-13: 978-0596101886
  • Product Dimensions: 22.1 x 21.8 x 2.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 615,449 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Make magazine, launched in February 2005 as the first magazine devoted to Tech DIY projects, hardware hacks, and DIY inspiration, has been hailed as "a how-to guide for the opposable thumb set" and "Popular Mechanics for the modern age." Itching to build a cockroach-controlled robot, a portable satellite radio or your very own backyard monorail? Hankering to hack a game boy or your circadian rhythms? Rather read about people who fashion laptop bags from recycled wetsuits and build shopping cart go-karts? Make is required reading.

Now, following on the heels of Make's wildly popular inaugural issues, O'Reilly offers Makers, a beautiful hardbound book celebrating creativity, resourcefulness and the DIY spirit. Author Bob Parks profiles 100 people and their homebrew projects-people who make ingenious things in their backyards, basements and garages with a lot of imagination and a little applied skill.

Makers features technologies old and new used in service of the serious and the amusing, the practical and the outrageous. The makers profiled are driven by a combination of curiosity, passion and plain old stick-to-itiveness to create the unique and astonishing. Most are simply hobbyists who'll never gain notoriety for their work, but that's not what motivates them to tinker. The collection explores both the projects and the characters behind them, and includes full-color photographs and instructions to inspire weekend hackers.

Parks is just the man to track the quirky and outlandish in their natural maker habitats. A well-known journalist and author who covers the personalities behind the latest technologies, Parks' articles on innovations of all kinds have appeared in Wired, Outside, Business 2.0 and Make. He has contributed essays to "All Things Considered" on public radio and discussed trends in technology devices with Regis Philbin and Russ Mitchell on television. As a Wired editor, Parks directed coverage of new consumer technologies and contributed feature articles.

All those who love to tinker or who fancy themselves kindred DIY spirits will appreciate Parks' eclectic and intriguing collection of independent thinkers and makers.



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Celebrating digital tinkering, hardware hacks and D.I.Y. of all stripes, O'Reilly introduces Makers, a beautiful hardbound book celebrating the creativity and resourcefulness of the D.I.Y. movement. Author Bob Parks profiles 100 people and their homebrew projects-people who make ingenious things in their backyards, basements and garages. Technologies old and new are used in service of the serious and the amusing, the practical and the outrageous as Makers explores both the inventions and the characters behind them in living color.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Inspiration for 'makers' at heart, 28 Dec 2007
By A. Reid "educateer" (Isle of Man, British Isles) - See all my reviews
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This book is an excellent collection of short pieces about people who make things. From the one wheeled motorcycle to the cell phone jammer to the bedroom tornado machine.

Each article focuses on the 'maker' themselves in the context of one of the items they have made. For many of these people making is their part-time passion and not necessarily what they do for a living.

Makes for very interesting reading and is quite inspirational. Although I didn't expect it to it doesn't include any instruction for actually making anything. Highly recommended to anyone who has 'making' in the blood.
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