Hobbyists, bodgers, fettlers and tinkerers: Make Magazine

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?

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]

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

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.

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

cheers wc

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

Decoding RF link using a PC soundcard

yeah. No thanks 😉

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

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