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--- Special Fringe Section --- 50 // Patently Curious Physicist Tom Valone looks at technologies most scientists consider junk. By Charles Platt 56 // In Search of Psi A boy and his Hieronymus Machine. By Charles Platt 62 // The Music of Chance Roger Nelson’s Global Consciousness Project searches for meaning in random numbers. By Bob Parks 66 // Digital Kirlian Photography Shooting auras without film. By John Iovine 70 // Reinventing the Square Wheel Unlimited allure: the perennial search for perpetual motion. By Donald E. Simanek 75 // Masonic Conspiracy Revealed! When engineering culture detaches from reality. By Paul Spinrad 78 // The Essential Strangeness of Time Reconstructing Athanasius Kircher’s magnetic clock. By Jonah Peretti --- Columns --- 11 // Welcome Why it sometimes pays to look beyond the limits. By Mark Frauenfelder 13 // News From the Future The future of media is the future of thinking. By Tim O’Reilly 15 // Make Free In order to “protect intellectual property,” bandits are willing to take away your rights to your property. By Cory Doctorow 24 // Hands On How Mark Twain couldn’t make it as a venture angel. By Bruce Sterling 32 // Art Work The joy of YDKEWYGUYGI. By Douglas Repetto 40 // Heirloom Technology Make your own hammock in less time than it takes to read this article. By Tim Anderson 46 // Making Trouble Don’t worry, no one is going to steal your secrets. By Saul Griffith 156 // Citizen Scientist Detect cosmic rays in a basketball case. By Dr. Shawn 171 // Retrocomputing Emulate an Apple II on a Palm device. By Tom Owad 186 // Retrospect High-tensile fastenings stand the test of time. By George Dyson --- Make: Projects --- 82 // The Bullwhip Craft your own handheld sonic boom effector. By William Gurstelle 92 // Pinhole Panoramic Camera Forget the Quaker Oats carton, and go wide with this roll-film design. By Ross Orr 104 // The $5 Cracker Box Amplifier Small box, big sound. By Ed Vogel and Blind Lightnin’ Pete 164 // Carbon Fiber Form, lay up, and cure your own high-performance composites. By John Wanberg --- Maker --- 14 // Maker’s Corner Advice and news for MAKE readers. By Dan Woods 16 // Made on Earth Snapshots from the world of backyard technology. 27 // 1+2+3: Aircraft Band Receiver Modify an AM/FM radio to pick up air traffic control communications. By Cy Tymony 28 // What Rough Beast Slouches Toward Arcata? MAKE goes to the World Championship Kinetic Sculpture Race. By William Gurstelle 34 // P.O.K.E.R. Night Trick your friends into making a vortex tube. By Mister Jalopy 38 // Disappearing Apple Remove the logo from an iBook. By Tom Owad 42 // Proto: Turn On, Tune In, Bliss Out Dr. James Hardt hopes his DIY neurofeedback tech will fire up the global brain. By David Pescovitz 112 // Workshop: Kevin Binkert One maker-for-hire’s well-equipped shop. By David Pescovitz 114 // 1+2+3: Curie Heat Engine Changing the temperature of nickel wire turns heat into motion. By John Iovine 155 // Tips and Tricks Shoe racks, dish stacks, and photo hacks. 160 // Howtoons: The Beaufort Scale By Saul Griffith and Nick Dragotta 162 // MakeShift: High School Lockdown By Lee D. Zlotoff 172 // Toolbox The best tools, software, publications, and websites. 180 // Blast from the Past: 1963 Old-school hand tool hacks. By Mister Jalopy 182 // Reader Input Where makers tell their tales. 189 // Aha! Puzzle This Clocks, chameleons, and lockers. By Michael H. Pryor 190 // Maker’s Calendar Our favorite events from around the world. 192 // Homebrew Our 6,000-volt wedding cake. By Heidi Kumao and Michael Flynn --- DIY -- 115 // Music One-string electric guitar. 120 // Home Time-based devices, metal etching, plywood furniture, ByteLight. 134 // Circuits PIC programming, TV set salvage. 140 // Imaging Action movie effects, tilt-shift photography, online video production tips, outdoor webcam enclosure. 153 // Cars Wind-up car.