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  • Hobbyists, bodgers, fettlers and tinkerers: Make Magazine
  • Stoner
    Free Member

    Any subscribers on the forum?

    Im a big fan of http://www.boingboing.net/ and in between the icky liberal pap and freakish comics there’s loads of great maker stuff linked to. There’s quite a cross over with http://makezine.com/ stuff, and while their print sub is a bit pricey ($50) for Non-US their digital sub is $20 for 4x editions and I think might include the back catalogue.

    But is it worth it?

    TheBrick
    Free Member

    I enjoy the website too, however I flicked though a copy in Huston airport a few weeks ago and found it a bit average. Two good articles on making stuff (including a biochemical one!) but other bits was like stuff magazine with reviews of technology gadgets or tools, but not proper tools, posing tools if you catch my drift. [/end long sentence]

    Stoner
    Free Member

    maybe it might be worth it just to pluck the good stuff from the back catalgoue…

    Thing is Id love a hard copy edition….

    cheers TB

    CountZero
    Full Member

    I’ve been following boingboing for ages, and I love the maker stuff too. It very much Cory Doctorow’s thing, along with giving away ebooks and having no DRM on digital files. I get a boingboing feed along with Make Magazine on Flipboard, which makes it easy to keep up with things.

    Woodcutter
    Free Member

    Stoner – I subscribed for a year (just expired) and yes, you get to download all previous issues as PDFs FOC. 8)

    Stoner
    Free Member

    cheers wc

    GrahamS
    Full Member

    I follow the blog via RSS. Some interesting projects and stuff on there (for free):
    http://blog.makezine.com/

    If you want a (much) geekier version try http://hackaday.com

    Stoner
    Free Member

    Decoding RF link using a PC soundcard

    yeah. No thanks 😉

    TheBrick
    Free Member

    Hackaday is another good site, the only problem is does make me feel inadequate.

    Mike_D
    Free Member

    I’ve got them all back to issue 4, must get hold of the first three sometime 🙂

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