If you like to tweak, disassemble, recreate, and invent cool new uses for technology, you'll love "Make", our project-based quarterly for the inquisitive do-it-yourselfer. In Vol. 17, "Make" goes really old school with a special section on steampunk, featuring projects that blend Victorian era technology with the cutting edge. Build your own marble adding machine or geared candle holder, and make music with a random music generator.
Editor-in-chief of MAKE magazine. Founder of Boingboing.net.
My books: The Happy Mutant Handbook (1995, Riverhead), a guide to offbeat pop culture. Mad Professor (2003, Chronicle), science experiments for kids. Worlds Worst (2005, Chronicle), a guide to the worst stuff on Earth, The Computer (2005, Carlton books), an illustrated history of computers. Rule the Web (2007, St. Martins), a guide to online tricks and tips. Next book, The World in Your Hands, to be published in 2010 by Penguin,"