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''Make'' (stylized as ''Make:'' or ''MAKE:'') is an American magazine published by Make: Community LLC which focuses on Do It Yourself (DIY) and/or Do It With Others (DIWO) projects involving computers,
electronics The field of electronics is a branch of physics and electrical engineering that deals with the emission, behaviour and effects of electrons using electronic devices. Electronics uses active devices to control electron flow by amplification ...
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metalworking Metalworking is the process of shaping and reshaping metals to create useful objects, parts, assemblies, and large scale structures. As a term it covers a wide and diverse range of processes, skills, and tools for producing objects on every scal ...
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robot A robot is a machine—especially one programmable by a computer—capable of carrying out a complex series of actions automatically. A robot can be guided by an external control device, or the control may be embedded within. Robots may ...
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woodworking Woodworking is the skill of making items from wood, and includes cabinet making (cabinetry and furniture), wood carving, joinery, carpentry, and woodturning. History Along with stone, clay and animal parts, wood was one of the first mate ...
and other disciplines. The magazine is marketed to people who enjoyed making things and features complex projects which can often be completed with cheap materials, including household items. ''Make'' is considered "a central organ of the
maker movement The maker culture is a contemporary subculture representing a technology-based extension of DIY culture that intersects with hardware-oriented parts of hacker culture and revels in the creation of new devices as well as tinkering with existing on ...
". In June 2019, ''Make'' magazine's parent company, Maker Media, abruptly shut down the bimonthly magazine due to lack of financial resources. As of June 10, 2019, it was reorganized and had since started publishing new quarterly issues, with volume 70 having shipped in October 2019.


History and profile

The magazine's first issue was released in February 2005 and then published as a quarterly in the months of February, May, August, and November; as of Fall 2022, 82 issues have been published. It is also available in a digital edition. The magazine has features and rotating columns, but the emphasis is on step-by-step projects. Each issue also features a Toolbox section with reviews of books and tools. Most volumes had a theme to which the articles in the special section are usually related. Notable previous columnists include
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, Lee D. Zlotoff, Mister Jalopy, and Bruce Sterling. The cartoonist Roy Doty has also contributed to many issues of the magazine. The Skill Builder section was a frequent feature teaching skills in areas as diverse as welding, electronics, and moldmaking. ''Makes founder and publisher is O'Reilly co-founder
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along with Sherry Huss, Vice President Make. The founding editor-in-chief was
Mark Frauenfelder Mark Frauenfelder (born November 22, 1960) is a blogger, illustrator, and journalist. He was editor-in-chief of the magazine '' MAKE'' and is co-owner of the collaborative weblog ''Boing Boing''. Along with his wife, Carla Sinclair, he founded the ...
. The current editor-in-chief is Keith Hammond. In
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and Switzerland (
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) the Heise Zeitschriften Verlag was under license to publish a German-language edition of ''Make'' independently of the English-language one. Maker Media GmbH produced and published the magazine every other month.


Maker Faire

The magazine launched a public annual event to "celebrate arts, crafts, engineering, science projects and the Do-It-Yourself (DIY) mindset.. Called Maker Faire, the first was held April 22-34, 2006, at the San Mateo
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s. It included six exposition and workshop pavilions, a outdoor midway, over 100 exhibiting makers, hands-on workshops, demonstrations, and DIY competitions. In 2007, Maker Faire was held in the San Francisco Bay Area on May 3-4, and
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, on October 20-21. The 2008 Maker Faires occurred May 3-4 at the San Mateo Fairgrounds in San Mateo, California, and October 18-19 at the Travis County Expo Center in Austin, Texas. The 2009 Maker Faire Bay Area was held on May 30-31. In 2010, there were three Maker Faires: Bay Area on May 22-23, Detroit on July 31 and August 1, and New York on September 25-26. By 2013, there were 100 Maker Faires across the globe, including in China, Japan, Israel, Australia, Spain, the UK, Italy, Ireland, Scotland, Chile, France, Norway, Canada, Germany and the Netherlands, as well as numerous cities in the United States. A total of 93 of these Faires were "Mini" Maker Faires — smaller scale, independently produced, local events. In 2014, the number of Maker Faires continued to grow, including one hosted by the White House. In 2017, there were 240+ Maker Faires planned around the world.


''Makers''

''Makers'' (subtitled "All Kinds of People Making Amazing Things in Backyards, Garages, and Basements") is a spin-off hardback book. Based on the magazine section of the same name, it covers DIY projects and profiles their creators.Parks, Bob. ''Makers: All Kinds of People Making Amazing Things in Garages, Basements, and Backyards''. Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly Media, 2006.


''Craft''


2006: ''Craft'' spin-out

In October 2006, a spin-off magazine, ''Craft'', was created for
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activities, allowing ''Make'' to concentrate exclusively on technology and DIY projects.


2009: ''Craft'' re-absorbed

On 11 February 2009, e-mails were sent to ''Craft:'' subscribers explaining that due to rising production costs and shrinking ad markets, the print version of ''Craft:'' would be discontinued but would remain as an online presence. Also, all further printed content would be incorporated into ''Make''.


''Make television''

''Make television'' was a television show produced by Twin Cities Public Television and hosted by John Edgar Park which premiered in January 2009 on
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stations. Ten episodes of the show were produced, featuring projects and informational guides as well as user produced videos which were submitted online.


Make Controller Kit

The MAKE Controller Kit was an
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solution for hobbyists and professionals to create interactive applications. It supported desktop interfaces via a variety of languages such as
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, Processing,
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, or anything that supports OSC. As per
Makezine ''Make'' (stylized as ''Make:'' or ''MAKE:'') is an American magazine published by Make: Community LLC which focuses on Do It Yourself (DIY) and/or Do It With Others (DIWO) projects involving computers, electronics, metalworking, robotics, woodw ...
, they helped fuel the idea of creation of a MAKE Controller Kit to better modularize the usage of MAKE controller. Possibilities include the ability to plug in XBee modules for wireless communication capability. Xbee modules add the power of IEEE 802.15.4 network standard and
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protocol to a MAKE Controller.


See also

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Instructables Instructables is a website specializing in user-created and uploaded do-it-yourself projects, currently owned by Autodesk. It was created by Eric Wilhelm and Saul Griffith and launched in August 2005. Instructables is dedicated to step-by-step ...
* Tim O'Reilly *
Makerspace A hackerspace (also referred to as a hacklab, hackspace, or makerspace) is a community-operated, often "not for profit" ( 501(c)(3) in the United States), workspace where people with common interests, such as computers, machining, technology, ...
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Fab lab A fab lab (''fabrication laboratory'') is a small-scale workshop offering (personal) digital fabrication. A fab lab is typically equipped with an array of flexible computer-controlled tools that cover several different length scales and vari ...


References


External links


''Make'' magazine

''Make'' digital edition

Maker Faire

''Ars Technica'' review of first issue, by Matt Woodward



''Slate'' article from March 2005

Make television
a weekly TV show done in partnership with Twin Cities Public Television
MakingThings official forum
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