Keep an eye out for MAKE Volume 14, which has a special section on optics. You'll learn how to make an inexpensive but powerful digital microscope that allows you to display bacteria colonies on a ...
With just one collection of LEGO bricks, you can build any of these 10 models--from the simple Hot Rod to the mighty Excavator. Tips and tricks will inspire you to create your own amazing models. W...
Show dune buggy riders the way to the beach. Find a path that will bring a hot air balloon to a safe landing. Help a mail truck get to the post office. Forty-eight full-page mazes filled with amusi...
Luna 2, launched by the USSR in 1959, was the first spacecraft from Earth to land on the moon. That first voyage was followed by increasingly capable lunar exploration spacecraft from Russia and th...
A dirt bike rider flies off a ramp and soars the length of a football field. He lands safely with a thud. In wild stunts like this, the technology of an off-road vehicle can mean the difference bet...
"At the end of last year, an extraordinary work of detective criticism briefly appeared, despite legal threats. Kent Johnson's A Question Mark Above the Sun (Punch Press) movingly speculates that K...
Do you have some crazy inventions up your sleeve? This book is jam-packed with Andrew Rae's amazing drawings showing all sorts of real inventions that seem too weird to work. How about a dog umbre...