| Make magazine, launched in February 2005 as the first
magazine devoted to Tech DIY projects, hardware hacks, and
DIY inspiration, has been hailed as "a how-to guide for the
opposable thumb set" and "Popular Mechanics for the modern
age." Itching to build a cockroach-controlled robot, a
portable satellite radio or your very own backyard monorail?
Hankering to hack a game boy or your circadian rhythms?
Rather read about people who fashion laptop bags from
recycled wetsuits and build shopping cart go-karts? Make is
required reading.
Now, following on the heels of Make's wildly popular
inaugural issues, O'Reilly offers Makers, a beautiful
hardbound book celebrating creativity, resourcefulness and
the DIY spirit. Author Bob Parks profiles 100 people and
their homebrew projects-people who make ingenious things in
their backyards, basements and garages with a lot of
imagination and a little applied skill.
Makers features technologies old and new used in service of
the serious and the amusing, the practical and the
outrageous. The makers profiled are driven by a combination
of curiosity, passion and plain old stick-to-itiveness to
create the unique and astonishing. Most are simply
hobbyists who'll never gain notoriety for their work, but
that's not what motivates them to tinker. The collection
explores both the projects and the characters behind them,
and includes full-color photographs and instructions to
inspire weekend hackers.
Parks is just the man to track the quirky and outlandish in
their natural maker habitats. A well-known journalist and
author who covers the personalities behind the latest
technologies, Parks' articles on innovations of all kinds
have appeared in Wired, Outside, Business 2.0 and Make. He
has contributed essays to "All Things Considered" on public
radio and discussed trends in technology devices with Regis
Philbin and Russ Mitchell on television. As a Wired editor,
Parks directed coverage of new consumer technologies and
contributed feature articles.
All those who love to tinker or who fancy themselves kindred
DIY spirits will appreciate Parks' eclectic and intriguing
collection of independent thinkers and makers.
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Biting the hand that feeds IT 
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