Forum menu
Hobbyists, bodgers,...
 

[Closed] Hobbyists, bodgers, fettlers and tinkerers: Make Magazine

Posts: 36
Free Member
Topic starter
 

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?


 
Posted : 02/07/2012 8:05 pm
Posts: 4954
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]


 
Posted : 02/07/2012 8:13 pm
Posts: 36
Free Member
Topic starter
 

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


 
Posted : 02/07/2012 9:10 pm
Posts: 33959
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.


 
Posted : 02/07/2012 9:16 pm
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

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


 
Posted : 02/07/2012 10:31 pm
Posts: 36
Free Member
Topic starter
 

cheers wc


 
Posted : 02/07/2012 10:37 pm
Posts: 31206
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


 
Posted : 02/07/2012 10:39 pm
Posts: 36
Free Member
Topic starter
 

Decoding RF link using a PC soundcard

yeah. No thanks ๐Ÿ˜‰


 
Posted : 02/07/2012 11:09 pm
Posts: 4954
Free Member
 

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


 
Posted : 03/07/2012 8:09 pm
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

I've got them all back to issue 4, must get hold of the first three sometime ๐Ÿ™‚


 
Posted : 03/07/2012 10:18 pm