How To Disassemble the new Nikon D7000 DSLR
Nikon’s new D7000 is an awesome camera full of great technology. But what’s on the inside? The Thai site vimoncamera.com takes it upon themselves to pull the case apart piece by piece to show the innards for us to all enjoy. One thing that…
HiJack Lets You Interface With The iPhone Through the Headphone Jack
As computers progress, get smaller, become more powerful, the peripherals that we used to stack next to our desktop machines have begun to disappear. Modems, various types of disc drives, printers and scanners – all are now internalized with 3G connections, Library of Congress-sized…
Tuning A Trebuchet For Maximum Distance – A Look at the Components and Variables
Here are some notes on adjusting your trebuchet or catapult to help maximize the distance it will launch an object. Happy flingin’! ======================== Catapults and trebuchets originated more than 2000 years ago, and over time became highly sophisticated machines that represented the pinnacle of…
Build Your Own RC Rock Crawler For Backyard Off-Road Fun – Or Just Watch Videos Of Other People Doing It
Rock crawling is a specialized hobby. Take automotive off-roading and narrow it down to just one specialize part: carefully climbing up craggy hills and over tall boulders at super-slow speeds. Sometimes done with stock trucks, but usually using highly modified vehicles with huge amounts…
Great Kids’ Gifts: My First Craftsman Kits
It’s never too early to start your kid on a life of satisfying project making. I saw these awesome “My First Craftsman” kids’ kits at the Craftsman Experience (I’ll be there later this week for a trebuchet build) and just got home from picking…
Improve Your TV Viewing With This 30-Minute Antenna Project For Free HDTV Broadcasts
I recently bit the bullet and bought a TV. Nothing extravagant, just a 28″ Hannspree LCD with enough resolution to allow it to double as a second computer monitor (and it does so nicely). But after years of using a Mac Mini, 19″ monitor,…
Deal of the Day: Popular Science One-Year Subscription for $5
Popular Science is one of my favorite magazines, with great articles and columns every month (and an awesome team of editors behind the pages –– I’ve gotten to know a few of them through my magazine days and TV endeavors). For the next week,…
My Halloween Pizza Bash Video
Halloween is a big deal on my street. This year I invited a few friends and neighbors over to pass out candy while I made pizzas. It was a blast. Many, many thanks to PizzaHacker for creating the PizzaForge oven and for working with…
iPhone 4 vs Ducati Superbike at 100 mph
My friend Michael rides motorcycles, and races them on the weekends. He’s a Ducati guy. He’s also a big techie, one of the earliest adapters I know (he had an Archos player WAY before anyone else – and used it regularly). Still, I was…
Trebuchet Roundup: Eight Online Plans Reviewed For Building Your Own
It’s autumn again. Such a wonderful time of year. Cider, hay rides, freshly bought school supplies. And launching things far through the air with catapults and trebuchets. This year, instead of being a mere catapult observer, why not build your own? Building a basic…
Hi, I'm Mike. I’m the executive editor of Make: magazine, and host of Discovery channel’s Punkin' Chunkin' and Catch It Keep It, TV shows where I build and explain crazy machines that crush stuff, blow things up, shoot fire, all in the name of science.
I've previously worked at Wired and ReadyMade magazines, writing about how to utilize new technology in our everyday lives.
This site is where I keep a list of instructions for fun projects I've done, am working on, or draw inspiration from. I encourage everyone to get involved — get up and do something!