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Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Category: Magazine
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Avg. Customer Rating:  15 reviews
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Subscription Issues: 4
Subscription Length: 12 Months
Issues Per Year: 4
First Issue Lead Time: 12-16 Weeks
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Product Description
MAKE brings the do-it-yourself mindset to all the technology in your life and celebrates your right to tweak, hack, and bend your technology to your will. MAKE ignites your ingenuity and connects you with your fellow "Makers."
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 Full of projects and tech info for smart/creative people. October 12, 2008
I have been a subscriber since their first issue and love this magazine and their website. It's a quarterly magazine, so you'll have enough time to finish a few projects before the next issue arrives.
I can't give it enough justice in this review. Visit their website [...] (or google for Make magazine). It gives a sample of what you'll find in the magazine and links to hundreds of other websites with amazing and fun projects to build. Or download one of their free weekly video podcast that includes a pdf for the project. The projects come straight from the magazine and it shows you how to make them.
Thanks to the magazine I made a small LED flashlight that runs on old batteries, a marshmallow gun made with PVC, and a little robot that runs on solar energy. My next projects will be a wind power generator, a 20W solar panel, and my own biodiesel. OK, I'm still undecided if I'll try making the biodiesel.
 MAKE: Technology on Your Time July 20, 2008
0 out of 7 found this review helpful
Ordered over one month ago and have not received it yet. Thus, this magazine gets my most negative review possible.
Mark
How can I review when the product hasn't arrived? July 7, 2008
0 out of 7 found this review helpful
I find the subscription distribution infrastructure of this magazine to be very weak. I subscribed three weeks ago and I haven't received the current issue, a back issue or any issue. Why does it take over 6 weeks for a magazine to process your request to be added to the subscription list?
In Make Magazine's defense, they did not promise a quicker turn around time when I purchased the subscription through Amazon, but Amazon should know better then to send me an email requesting me to review the product before it is scheduled to arrive.
 3.5 stars June 5, 2006
17 out of 24 found this review helpful
This magazine is interesting, but check it out in the store before you subscribe. Many of the projects are costly and of little use. If you happen to have the tools and supplies on hand, it's worthwhile to check out. If you do not already make things and have access to lots of equipment to help you make things, there are other sources on the web that provide kits that will get you started with much less fuss. Most of the stuff in the issues dealing with various types of 'hacks' are interesting, but again expensive, and you can find most of those sources on the web.
Read May 29, 2006
24 out of 25 found this review helpful
This quarterly magazine really hits the spot, if you're in its crosshairs. It's a clean miss for others.
It's pretty easy to tell whether you're in the target audience. Do you have a closet full of decommisioned PCs, cell phones, and other 21st-century rubble that you just know you could do "something" with? Do you have a Dremel tool, fine-tipped soldering iron, and more than one kind of epoxy in the house? Do the phrases "It works" and "It's beautiful" mean roughly the same thing to you? Does the idea of a home CNC milling machine stir you to jealousy or a quick look at your checkbook? Two or more yes answers probably qualify you as the intended reader.
This is about hacking your PC mouse or the cage for your pet mouse, about resurrecting last year's laptop as an electronic photo frame, and about how simple a robot control can be (you'd be surprised). It's like Popular Mechanics, but for the people who consider software, resistors, and pieces from antique clocks to be interchangeable. Although a few of the ideas in each issue have low-tech appeal, most are aimed at skill sets from "geeky highschooler" to "electronics professional".
This magazine comes from O'Reilly, the publisher who fills the bookshelves of dilbertian cube farms everywhere. In some ways, this looks like a self-concious attempt at community-building, creating a forum for home robot-builders and artisans of the silicon age. Well, maybe that's not a bad thing - the communities are out there, but not easy for a beginner to find or to break into. It also helps that the the minimal advertising (part of the reason for the hefty cover price) is well targeted to the electronic and gadgeteering hobbyist. The title is only up to issue number 6 at this writing, so I'm not sure that it's wholly found itself yet. For example, I would have preferred a schematic for some of the circuits in addition to the assembly instructions. Still, with a scriptwriter from MacGyver, there's a lot to like here - for the right reader.
//wiredweird
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